A complete 48 card set: Panko or Votes for Women The Great Card Game 1909-10

REED, Edward. Tennyson. Panko; or, Votes for Women. The Great Card Game. Suffragists v. Anti-Suffragists.
 
London: Peter Gurney Ltd., 2 Breams Buildings, E.C. [c.1909–1910].
 
Complete set of 48 illustrated playing cards, colour printed with rounded corners, each numbered and captioned (e.g. “Votes for Women,” “Gaol! Gaol! Gaol!,” “Turn ’Em Out!,” “Law! Law! Law!,” “Fourteen Days!”), illustrations signed in the plate “E.T.R.” Housed in the original printed card box.
 
Cards generally very good, clean and bright with light handling wear only. Original box heavily worn and rubbed, with splitting to joints and old internal reinforcement; structurally present but fragile, with surface loss and abrasion to printed paper covering. The cards are very good, the box is poor.
 
A satirical suffrage card game illustrated by Edward Tennyson Reed, cartoonist for Punch. The game stages political conflict as parlour entertainment, opposing “Suffragists” and “Anti-Suffragists” through caricature scenes referencing Holloway imprisonment, courtroom sentences, public demonstrations, and parliamentary manoeuvres. Titles such as “Gaol! Gaol! Gaol!” and “Turn ’Em Out!” reflect the heightened political tensions of the period around the Conciliation Bills and militant escalation when the cards were issued in 1909-10. Complete sets are increasingly rare; survival in the original box, even when so worn, is uncommon.