An early copy of Bezique that also includes Polish Bezique rules by Cavendish from around the 1920s, although difficult to pin point an exact date as De La Rue started making Bezique sets in 1869 up until the mid 20th century.
Bezique is a trick taking card game in which players score for winning aces and 10s in tricks, and for forming certain combinations of cards from tricks won and cards in hand. Point-scoring combinations include four of a kind (aces, kings, queens and jacks only), a marriage (king and queen of same suit), sequence (A-10 of trump) or a Bezique (queen of spades and jack of diamonds). Bezique uses a subset of the standard playing cards, composed of the seven through Ace taken from two decks (i.e. the deck contains no deuces through sixes, with all other cards appearing twice).
Contains immaculate scorers and cards and the box is also in very good condition, these red copies usually suffer from colour loss. Although there is a small pencil mark on the underside. Grade 1 under the Hoyles Vintage Grading System.
