Bidspirit auction | A Collection of Vintage British

A Collection of Vintage British Glamour Magazines and Pin-up Playing Cards - This collection of mid-20th-century British glamour and pin-up ephemera comprises several periodical titles and novelty playing card decks. The magazine selection includes multiple issues of Spick, featuring issue No. 176 with a pre-decimal price of 2/6 and later issues with post-decimal pricing of 25p and 30p. Also present is an issue of Span magazine, No. 246, titled Gals and Glamour, and a larger format Spick and Span Extra. Smaller publications include Mini-Mod Magazine, subtitled Miniature Nude and Pin-Up Photos, and Blonde and Brunette issue No. 19, which contains photographic art studies by Eva Grant. The novelty playing card sets include The Sun Page 3 cards accompanied by a 1979 advance order form for a Page Three calendar. Other decks include Pin-up 54 Cartes a Jouer in a clear plastic case and a Royal Flashes set. The imagery across the collection consists of professional studio and location glamour photography in both monochrome and colour, ranging from classic pin-up styles to artistic figure studies and full nudity. The items are produced via commercial offset lithography on various paper and card stocks.