Cavaliers by Kings & Crooks

[manu]

[A. Haines]

Let's go Kings n Crooks! Big fan awesome project

[wingedpotato]

Been a while since I've seen a variation on classic courts that speaks to me. This one about screams. So purty.

[CourtCurator]

Love these! Definitely in!

[Adamthinks]

Oooh, I like this one a lot. Backing for both non gilded.

[Bradius]

Yeah, Lee is back! I am in for sure. Going for a deluxe brick combo.

[Disenchanted_11]

This looks really amazing.

It's deceiving how they exaggerate metallic inks on the renders though... they look like foils, but it's far from the actual visual end result.

[MagikFingerz]

Would have liked them a lot more if the red from the tuck was also present on the backs.

[vasta41]

In.

[Harvonsgard]

A lot to love about these. Especially the Jokers and the limited tuckbox... Yummy stuff.

[Honeybee]

Let's go Kings n Crooks! Big fan awesome project

You're both doing cigars!

[Honeybee]

Would have liked them a lot more if the red from the tuck was also present on the backs.

+1
Which leads me to the blues. I am not a huge fan of the aged/buffed look and although the gilded version looks good, does aged with impeccable gilded edges make sense?

[Swiski66]

Enthusiastically backed this...so beautiful!!! I got the 2 deck set as well.

[A. Haines]

Let's go Kings n Crooks! Big fan awesome project

You're both doing cigars!

Alas another theme emerged victorious! No cigars for me, not for a while anyway Great starting point for a fancy deck of cards though.

[GandalfPC]

Rudyard Kipling, “The Betrothed”


“You must choose between me and your cigar.” — Breach of Promise Case, circa 1885.



Open the old cigar-box, get me a Cuba stout,
For things are running crossways, and Maggie and I are out.

We quarrelled about Havanas—we fought o’er a good cheroot,
And I knew she is exacting, and she says I am a brute.

Open the old cigar-box—let me consider a space;
In the soft blue veil of the vapour musing on Maggie’s face.

Maggie is pretty to look at—Maggie’s a loving lass,
But the prettiest cheeks must wrinkle, the truest of loves must pass.

There’s peace in a Larranaga, there’s calm in a Henry Clay;
But the best cigar in an hour is finished and thrown away—

Thrown away for another as perfect and ripe and brown—
But I could not throw away Maggie for fear o’ the talk o’ the town!

Maggie, my wife at fifty—grey and dour and old—
With never another Maggie to purchase for love or gold!

And the light of Days that have Been the dark of the Days that Are,
And Love’s torch stinking and stale, like the butt of a dead cigar—

The butt of a dead cigar you are bound to keep in your pocket—
With never a new one to light tho’ it’s charred and black to the socket!

Open the old cigar-box—let me consider a while.
Here is a mild Manila—there is a wifely smile.

Which is the better portion—bondage bought with a ring,
Or a harem of dusky beauties, fifty tied in a string?

Counsellors cunning and silent—comforters true and tried,
And never a one of the fifty to sneer at a rival bride?

Thought in the early morning, solace in time of woes,
Peace in the hush of the twilight, balm ere my eyelids close,

This will the fifty give me, asking nought in return,
With only a Suttee’s passion—to do their duty and burn.

This will the fifty give me. When they are spent and dead,
Five times other fifties shall be my servants instead.

The furrows of far-off Java, the isles of the Spanish Main,
When they hear my harem is empty will send me my brides again.

I will take no heed to their raiment, nor food for their mouths withal,
So long as the gulls are nesting, so long as the showers fall.

I will scent ’em with best vanilla, with tea will I temper their hides,
And the Moor and the Mormon shall envy who read of the tale of my brides.

For Maggie has written a letter to give me my choice between
The wee little whimpering Love and the great god Nick o’ Teen.

And I have been servant of Love for barely a twelvemonth clear,
But I have been Priest of Cabanas a matter of seven year;

And the gloom of my bachelor days is flecked with the cheery light
Of stumps that I burned to Friendship and Pleasure and Work and Fight.

And I turn my eyes to the future that Maggie and I must prove,
But the only light on the marshes is the Will-o’-the-Wisp of Love.

Will it see me safe through my journey or leave me bogged in the mire?
Since a puff of tobacco can cloud it, shall I follow the fitful fire?

Open the old cigar-box—let me consider anew—
Old friends, and who is Maggie that I should abandon you?

A million surplus Maggies are willing to bear the yoke;
And a woman is only a woman, but a good Cigar is a Smoke.

Light me another Cuba—I hold to my first-sworn vows.
If Maggie will have no rival, I’ll have no Maggie for Spouse!

[Bikefanatic]

Reminds me of a Theory11 deck. I'll see if it grows on me.

[Honeybee]

Let's go Kings n Crooks! Big fan awesome project

You're both doing cigars!

Alas another theme emerged victorious! No cigars for me, not for a while anyway Great starting point for a fancy deck of cards though.

I thought your exciting new decks Osprey and Goshawk were coming in a cigar tin

[A. Haines]

Ah yes, in that case, you are correct thank you for the plug

[Swiski66]

Reminds me of a Theory11 deck. I'll see if it grows on me.

I don't get T11 vibes from this deck at all! This has the artistry elegance and foil accents like Royales, mixed with the fine details of a Kings Wild currency deck.

[BaconWise]

Fantastic coin add-on. If anyone backed the Royales campaign and picked up his coin, you know the high quality involved.

[Disenchanted_11]

I'll be getting this coin, though also wishing there's a way to get the Royales coin, I love that black background more

[manu]

With the latest update, there are now 5 different editions:

• Cavaliers Classic Deck

• Cavaliers Export 1800 - KS Ltd Ed Deck

• Cavaliers GILDED Export 1800 - KS Ltd Ed Deck

• Cavaliers Export Libre Deck

• Cavaliers Gran Reserva 555

[Evilgamer]

yep I think the 555 edition looks great but its getting a little much.

though to be fair, 2 of those are the same deck, one gilded, one not.

[kevork]

I cancelled my pledge to wait for photographs vs the renders. The gamble I'd be taking is whether or not I can find an Export 1800 close to the KS price post-campaign.

[rousselle]

I'm getting one of each... well, depending upon the price of the 555. His work has never disappointed... well, except with regard to hitting deadlines, but he's far from the only offender in that regard. I'd planned on passing on this campaign, but his work is just damn good, and this one looks very tasty.

[Honeybee]

Which leads me to the blues. I am not a huge fan of the aged/buffed look and although the gilded version looks good, does aged with impeccable gilded edges make sense?

I am a little confused by the KS - is the gilding now Vintage Gilding? (much more fitting for the stressed deck). I don't see an option to choose either ither
I am with harvs in that I love the tuck and the jokers but is that enough to buy. The cleaner looking Export Libre may be more to my taste

[PiazzaDelivery]

Lee added a brick box to the add-ons.

Elevating the humble "brick box" to unrivalled levels of luxury with Cavaliers style craftsmanship, your card collection deserves a unique, premium quality box like none other, so I just had to create one. Inspired by vintage style premium cigar and whiskey cabinets that were built to hold only the finest selections, this is the Cavaliers 12-Deck Deluxe Cabinet.

[Bradius]

Sweet. I went a bit crazy and got the 12-deck Cavaliers Deluxe Gold Combo, plus a fair bit of extra stuff. So, free brick box. Nice. I am looking forward to this one.

[Adamthinks]

Sweet. I went a bit crazy and got the 12-deck Cavaliers Deluxe Gold Combo, plus a fair bit of extra stuff. So, free brick box. Nice. I am looking forward to this one.

Sounds like you're all set for winter.

[A. Haines]

Sweet. I went a bit crazy and got the 12-deck Cavaliers Deluxe Gold Combo, plus a fair bit of extra stuff. So, free brick box. Nice. I am looking forward to this one.

Sounds like you're all set for winter.

this made me chuckle

Alas, I would have gone a little crazier than I did, were it not for finite funds.

Looking forward to fulfilment!