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sqratch wrote:Are you opening the de'vo decks?

I will be opening one of the exquisite decks I will post picks

Firthetic wrote:I bought three mixed bricks from a local online shop today in their liquidation sale.

Wait they started selling already ??

Other than the 3 mixed bricks, I also got a signed Fantastique deck, two Porper clips and five Artifice coins.
Received the Whispering Imps and Deco decks finally! I use a shipping consolidator to forward US packages to me, so they take a while. The rest are eBay purchases.

volantangel wrote:

Firthetic wrote:I bought three mixed bricks from a local online shop today in their liquidation sale.

Wait they started selling already ??

They actually posted up the whole list of items on Facebook around 6pm, but due to overwhelming response they had to take it down after twenty minutes or so. I managed to copy it to an Excel spreadsheet and narrowed it down to these. Dropped them a message and they made an exception cos I was buying in bulk. Do you want the list? I can send it to you now if you haven't already seen it.

Who are we talking about?

I'm curious too.. who is this?

Here you go, guys: https://www.facebook.com/thecardconnoisseur.sg

Edit: In case you don't have Facebook, you can check out their website at http://www.thecardconnoisseur.blogspot.sg/

My Red Monarchs and Giant Tuck Box arrived today. I put it next to the Brick Box for size comparison. The Giant tuck is really cool! They even printed it on a silky paper similar to the silky paper used on the Red Tuck Box. It's very well done.

For the Red Deck, the Tuck's Red is a little darker and paler than I thought. It's still nice!

Thanks, Randy

I just got my Whispering Imps decks too. 3 Blacks, 2 Reds.

3 regular Whispering Imps, 2 LE.
My 3rd Blue Bloods deck.
Madison Players on the bottom.


First time I spotted a Coterie Bee in a magic shop.

Latest bits - and my Imps cant be far away!

Verloren wrote: First time I spotted a Coterie Bee in a magic shop.

Which magic shop, dare I ask?

rousselle wrote:

Verloren wrote: First time I spotted a Coterie Bee in a magic shop.

Which magic shop, dare I ask?

It's a store in Hong Kong. They're my go to store, mostly because they have the highest volume of decks in HK. I picked up my 1st Blue Bloods from them for 12USD. My 2nd and 3rd Blue Bloods cost around 14USD.

The owner also told me that they a going for one of Dale's frames.

Well let me start with a shout out to some really special people in the forums who hooked me up with some swanky decks.



Realizing I had not gone to my favorite thrift shop in quite a while, decided to stop by today. And found this $3 beauty:



As you can see it's a wine gift case with accessories. Snugly fits 19 decks. I can probably squeeze in a 20th deck by removing the inserts but I don't want to push my luck. It will be reserved for my top favorite decks.



The insert and the spaces can be easily removed. I was thinking the lid could easily serve as a coin/poker chip display area. Just need to make a special insert for it.

Very nice Eoghan. I like the idea of using the top as a dealer coin / poker chip display area. And for $3, can't beat that at all.

I've picked up a few decks recently as well, will have to post pics sometime soon. Have to say though, got the Exquisite deck in today. Now, I can barely do a decent fan with a regular deck, but these things handle amazingly well. Seriously, they're some very cool cards. Only gripe is the repeating courts and while it's a left deck, that just allows for a very nice fan. I only picked up one deck since money is a little tight but after handling them, I wish I'd gone for more, especially since they're sold out now.

The wine-case is a superb find Eoghann!

These dropped through the postbox today:

The Vict is a miprint deck a that Vict was giving away to backers for teh price of postage. (He gave away the Sureal scapes too)

I didn't know the Surreal Scapes deck was printed. Where did you get that?

The Vict project was delayed because of a misprint run, and when the project was finally delivered Vict put an update out to all backers offering the remainder of the final run, the misprints and 12 decks of surreal scapes for free - all we had to do was cover shipping.

They all went, but you could message him via KS to ask where he got them I guess?

Magik The surreal scapes deck has been printed for years and is available on Amazon for one. The Kickstarter was for the Surreal scapes Part 2 deck which did not fund as you know

sqratch wrote:Are you opening the de'vo decks?

Here are the pics you wanted

badpete69 wrote:

sqratch wrote:Are you opening the de'vo decks?

Here are the pics you wanted

It's a shame this deck has repeating courts. I really like this deck.

Is this how you store all your open decks ?

Yes since I do not handle the cards (fan and w/e all the moves are called) I really collect for the deck look and uniqueness. I do not open all the standard bicycle deck but usually the decks that have custom courts and unique art. I can fit 17 decks in a D ring binders and in the end it's like a photo album

Today's Load...

Kdklown wrote:Today's Load...

Nice! The only one I have is the Harry Potter one. (sniff).

Between funds being tight and Christmas being just around the corner, I don't know that I'm going to have anything new to share in this thread until New Year, unless Santa comes through.

Kdklown wrote:Today's Load...

Amazing Haul!

Where did you get the Bicycle Tri-K deck (the one without the spade pip)

CBJ wrote:

Kdklown wrote:Today's Load...

Amazing Haul!

Where did you get the Bicycle Tri-K deck (the one without the spade pip)

Thanks CBJ, got all these from the same guy I got the Grand Opening Deck from.

Ohhh. It all makes sense now

I'm working hard trying to catch up to you!

Ohh really?! lol

Here's almost all my different decks...

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you can click to zoom in


And here's the full size

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you can zoom in,.

This doesn't include my minis or my bridge size decks


Jay

badpete69 wrote:Magik The surreal scapes deck has been printed for years and is available on Amazon for one. The Kickstarter was for the Surreal scapes Part 2 deck which did not fund as you know

Oh yeah, I remember now. The next one would have actual playing card design instead of just photos. Sigh, still bummed out that it didn't get funded.