52 card deck and 2 jokers. Pips are Red and Blue. Aces show a large pip of each suit with part of the Great Britain flag inside. Royals are made up of: Jack: Flag, Queen: Britannia, King: Crown

Cheery Families. Marks and Spencer plc, United Kingdom. Bespoke gaming deck, 52 cards + rule card. Size: 77mm x 107mm.

Deck make-up:

Cards: 52 cards: 13 families with 4 members each (father, mother, son, daughter).

Extras: rule card.

2009 re-release of a game to celebrate the 125th anniversary of Marks and Spencer stores. The box says: "Cheery Familes was first sold as part of a range called 'St. Michael Juvenile Card Games' and today this timeless game will still provide hours of fun for all the family." This release is thought to date from the late 1930s. However, the game isn't original as a De La Rue version, dating from the 1890s (possibly earlier), had previously done the rounds. The De La Rue version had the same artwork (by Richard Doyle) but in full colour; the Marks' version is in two colours (red and black) only.

The game itself is a version of Happy Families, with the families each having a tradesperson as the father.

You can see all cards and info in https://steve-p.org/cards/Chee.html

In 2009, to celebrate 20 years since the release of the first Wallace & Gromit adventure by Aardman animations, Marks and Spencer released a deck of jumbo-sized playing cards made in China for them by an anonymous manufacturer, featuring characters from the shows. Each denomination of card has a different picture - every Ace has the same picture, every 2 the same picture etc, thus there are a total of 13 different pictures plus two more for the Jokers depicting the nefarious penguin from ‘The Wrong Trousers’ in two different poses. Wallace is an eccentric inventor, perhaps the squared paper background is a nod towards his ‘Inventor’ persona? Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) won Best Animated Feature Film, Oscars 2006.