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Jay

This came for you yesterday at my house

Eoghann wrote:Go ahead Hammer...you know you want to...take a bite out of that forbidden fruit. Hissssss

Y'all are the devil, I say! I would LOVE to open them and enjoy the majesty that is Uusi. However, considering what I paid, and it's the only one I have, it will have to stay hidden. Now, if somebody threw a open/used deck my way, I wouldn't complain...

Let it be known, if the majority of UC hates it, I probably want to buy it. lol

That being said. Exquisite Bold, ladies and gentlemen.




They fan like crap, smell funky out of the box, but gosh i think they look so pretty. Gold foil stamp on the cards, tuck case looking all shiny and what not. However, It is sideways... which is going to take some getting used to for sure.

Both Exquisite and Silver Split Spades (FINALLY got some) from Art of Play. Bee's from CVS Pharmacy.

SBurk

Is that a vodka OJ behind that Bold deck?

badpete69 wrote:SBurk

Is that a vodka OJ behind that Bold deck?

No.

That, my friend, is a vanilla scented candle. lol

Just as badass.

Eoghann wrote:Just as badass.

Certainly harder to drink...

...especially through a straw.

Nicely played, Robert. I almost choked, laughing at your response

Maddest Hammer wrote:Nicely played, Robert. I almost choked, laughing at your response

Did some vanilla candle come out your nose?

I am a little let down by the Black Flag edition of the Steampunk Pirates. There is no indication at all that it is limited. It was a much higher price than the regular deck, and yeah it came with a coin, but seems that it wasn't worth the money for just a tuck swap. I am getting spoiled by numbered seals and such...

SBurk49 wrote:

badpete69 wrote:SBurk

Is that a vodka OJ behind that Bold deck?

No.

That, my friend, is a vanilla scented candle. lol

Careful. Vanilla scented candles will get your man card pulled....

nECr0MaNCeD wrote:Careful. Vanilla scented candles will get your man card pulled....

"Man card"? Is that what the kids are calling it these days?

Oh, oh, oh! Holds up my hand: today was "visit the post office" day for Donna, and she scored! Let's take a look at a few of my prizes today, and these are all vintage and antique decks. I'm going to get a few of you sooner or later - admit it!

First up: a couple of pix of a 50's deck of Kem "Canasta" decks, mint in seals, complete with early 50's style tax stamps (the big/long ones), not the later 50's and early (to 1965 when taxation of decks was discontinued) small postage sized stamps used later.

Next up - a pair of pix from something that truly goes outside my wheelhouse, it's a 36-card "Skat" deck made in Germany that was printed using a very rare 12-color process. Check it out - you can actually see the blue in the eyes on some of the courts. I bought a pair of these, one in pristine condition and one still sealed. This particular pattern is called "Reflex" and is the only 12-color process deck I've ever seen other than the mysterious "Norwood 85" deck that was made as a prototype by USPCC back decades ago - and there are only about 10 copies known, with four different backs if I remember correctly. One went for over $4000 at a 52+Joker convention a couple of years ago.

If you want to slobber over a deck of cards - look at the courts on this deck! All I'll say is "dayum"... Double-click to blow it up, then click again and check out the blue eyes on both of the red "B" cards. *smh*

Finally, a pix of a 1894 "American Playing Cards" (Kalamazoo, Michigan) "Eagles" with a 2-cent tax stamp cancelled in August 1894. These cards are in near mint condition, and the box is OB1 (Original Box, 1st condition). I suppose the box has a few signs of wear, but basically it appears to have never been played, although it is of course open. L55 in Hochman's Encyclopedia, so it's actually classified as a Longley deck and was called "Super Enameled" back in the day, thus the almost sparkling finish. It was one of the finest decks of card made at that time. I'm going to go $250 for value, although it could well be over $300, and I paid about 10% of that for them on eBay - not kidding. (and yes, RSL, I'm staring to understand what you mean: but I've been a member for more than 16 years and I've got good eyes and reflexes!)

Mike Ratledge wrote:Oh, oh, oh! Holds up my hand: today was "visit the post office" day for Donna, and she scored! Let's take a look at a few of my prizes today, and these are all vintage and antique decks. I'm going to get a few of you sooner or later - admit it!

First up: a couple of pix of a 50's deck of Kem "Canasta" decks, mint in seals, complete with early 50's style tax stamps (the big/long ones), not the later 50's and early (to 1965 when taxation of decks was discontinued) small postage sized stamps used later.

Next up - a pair of pix from something that truly goes outside my wheelhouse, it's a 36-card "Skat" deck made in Germany that was printed using a very rare 12-color process. Check it out - you can actually see the blue in the eyes on some of the courts. I bought a pair of these, one in pristine condition and one still sealed. This particular pattern is called "Reflex" and is the only 12-color process deck I've ever seen other than the mysterious "Norwood 85" deck that was made as a prototype by USPCC back decades ago - and there are only about 10 copies known, with four different backs if I remember correctly. One went for over $4000 at a 52+Joker convention a couple of years ago.

If you want to slobber over a deck of cards - look at the courts on this deck! All I'll say is "dayum"... Double-click to blow it up, then click again and check out the blue eyes on both of the red "B" cards. *smh*

Finally, a pix of a 1894 "American Playing Cards" (Kalamazoo, Michigan) "Eagles" with a 2-cent tax stamp cancelled in August 1894. These cards are in near mint condition, and the box is OB1 (Original Box, 1st condition). I suppose the box has a few signs of wear, but basically it appears to have never been played, although it is of course open. L55 in Hochman's Encyclopedia, so it's actually classified as a Longley deck and was called "Super Enameled" back in the day, thus the almost sparkling finish. It was one of the finest decks of card made at that time. I'm going to go $250 for value, although it could well be over $300, and I paid about 10% of that for them on eBay - not kidding. (and yes, RSL, I'm staring to understand what you mean: but I've been a member for more than 16 years and I've got good eyes and reflexes!)

Very nice. I really like the Reflex/Skat deck from Germany. I noticed for the Queens they used a "D" for Damen. Makes sense as queen in German is Königin and king being König. Wouldn't work to have both with a "K".

These came pretty fast

nECr0MaNCeD wrote:Very nice. I really like the Reflex/Skat deck from Germany. I noticed for the Queens they used a "D" for Damen. Makes sense as queen in German is Königin and king being König. Wouldn't work to have both with a "K".

K/D/V is the German standard, AFAIK they have and still use the French standard, but I've seen some recent post-reunification decks with green spades ("leaves") and yellow diamonds ("bells"), which is odd, to say the least - see picture attached. Tarot or Tarock sets use the 'old school' suits, including coins and batons as diamonds and clubs respectively. Skat cards from pre-WWII usually have the old suites, and some even made now do. Danish cards are (K)ong/(D)ronning/(Kn)ave, for example. Dutch are different still, and typically the same as Flemish decks, which of course is the Dutch-speaking portion of Belgium where Cartimundi and formerly Bierman amongst others is/was located.

I forgot to chunk the Deland's "Automatic" (now called "$100 deck") which is S S Adams, but made in China instead of the older (better) USPCC decks, actually branded S S Adams but made for "Magic Makers" who I suppose bought the right to produce them. It's another marked deck like the 'Nifty' Deland I showed before that was stuffed into a Steamboat #220 tuck so as not to be so obvious by someone "back then". It's a typical thing magicians and slight-of-hand artists did so the marked deck wasn't so obvious.

This deck is a simple decode: clockword-based, straight up as an Queen, the read around the clock to 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, J and no mark is a K. The other dial points left for spades, up for hearts, right for clubs and down for diamonds - not obvious in the picture because it's "none of the above", it's the back of the tuck. Theodore de Land actually made the plates to print the original Star, Nifty, Automatic and two others that I don't remember off the top of my head.

I guess from the pix above I should be looking for my brick of the multi-colored Tallys?

Thanks Mike. sharing your card knowledge is much appreciated by this noob.

The skat deck with the yellow diamonds is a no-revoke deck. The 4 different colours are supposed to keep players from mistakenly playing a heart for a diamond, or a spade for a club, or vice versa.

Mike Ratledge wrote:K/D/V is the German standard

To my knowledge, the German standard is B/D/K (Bube, Dame, Koenig). There is even a German club for playing card collectors, the name of which is "Bube, Dame, Koenig".

dazzleguts wrote:The skat deck with the yellow diamonds is a no-revoke deck. The 4 different colours are supposed to keep players from mistakenly playing a heart for a diamond, or a spade for a club, or vice versa.

Nope, I agree that it looks that way, but it was a compromise by the German Skat League after reunification. No 2s through 6s in the deck, only 32 cards. It's on the playing cards page on Wikipedia... They aren't all done that way, in fact as I noted some still use the traditional suits as opposed to the modern "French" ones, also. Dutch sometimes and the German-speaking part of Belgium use that (K/D/B) as well.

RSLancastr wrote:

Mike Ratledge wrote:K/D/V is the German standard

To my knowledge, the German standard is B/D/K (Bube, Dame, Koenig). There is even a German club for playing card collectors, the name of which is "Bube, Dame, Koenig".

True, but for Skat they use the French convention K/D/V as shown in my picture above. I'm still learning every day especially when I venture "out of my wheelhouse" as I noted in the previous post.

I just don't buy stuff like that, or haven't in the past. When you see that deck for sale and you can buy it for $2.24 - it's hard to resist! I found further information: it's a 350gsm paper named "Chromolux" made by a German company named Metsä Board Gohrsmühle (still in business, has been since 1829 here: Metsä Board Paper and Board Mill Gohrsmühle) that uses the brand name "Zander" which later got consolidated into Altenburger und Stralsunder Spielkarten-Fabriken AG (commonly called "ASS") and that eventually got gobbled up by Cartimuni. The Jack ("V") of Clubs has more information in little script writing that I eventually was able to decode and it's definitely made after they were bought out by ASS which means about 1960, and the Chromolux paper wasn't used past 1967 for playing cards, and wasn't used before 1958. I'll modify my first guess of about 1963 and shoot down the middle. Danes say "Tyskland" for Germany and the languages are so different it's hard for me to stumble through it, but I'm a quick study. When I have a moment I'll finish the full decode of the guttural German. It just sounds funny to someone that speaks Danish because that is such a "lazy tongue" language like most Nordic ones except for Norse which nobody can understand - right Tom?

Here they are folks, straight outta Stockholm. Requiem has arrived. Absolutely gorgeous. Amazing. Incredible. I need more...

A very special thanks to Lorenzo. Thank you, sir. I am indebted to you.

Maddest Hammer wrote:Here they are folks, straight outta Stockholm. Requiem has arrived. Absolutely gorgeous. Amazing. Incredible. I need more...

A very special thanks to Lorenzo. Thank you, sir. I am indebted to you.

Excellent! Glad to see someone has gotten their toys already. I'm expecting the flood gates to open up here on Monday, but - we'll see as always. I suspect that they are working feverishly to get them shipped from Michigan Mailers, but I haven't been in contact.

Lorenzo?

Sometimes it pays off to live in Europe. 3 days, and no customs. I'm naming my next kid Lorenzo...

Maddest Hammer wrote:Here they are folks, straight outta Stockholm. Requiem has arrived. Absolutely gorgeous. Amazing. Incredible. I need more...

A very special thanks to Lorenzo. Thank you, sir. I am indebted to you.

That's awesome!

Die Karten haben sich heraus furchtbar nett!

Kortene blev, vidunderligt! (Jeg er dansk af fødsel, selvom en amerikansk statsborger). Ja, Ja!

Google translate did it's usual mediocre job, but I think I got the gist of it. Yes, they are nice. I was doing the happy dance while the DHL lady tried to hand me the electronic signer. Did I mention the cards are beautiful? Truly amazing.

Mike Ratledge wrote:Die Karten haben sich heraus furchtbar nett!

Kortene blev, vidunderligt! (Jeg er dansk af fødsel, selvom en amerikansk statsborger). Ja, Ja!

Reminds me of a time I had purchased a deck which had been printed to be used at some European card game tournament.

The deck had a card of tournament rules, in either German or Dutch (I forget which). I neither read nor spoke the language, so I typed what was on that card into an online language translator (remember Babelfish.com?).

The resulting translation was hilarious! The first rule translated into something like this:

1. March boldly into the auditorium, singing loudly!

I couldn't figure out if it was a joke set of rules, an entirely joke deck, if Babelfish was having an off day, or what.

Maddest Hammer wrote:Google translate did it's usual mediocre job, but I think I got the gist of it. Yes, they are nice. I was doing the happy dance while the DHL lady tried to hand me the electronic signer. Did I mention the cards are beautiful? Truly amazing.

It always does - it's too darned literal with translations and doesn't do a darned thing for "local color", regional dialects or anything else. Danish is especially frustrating since there are 4 distinct dialects and even certain words change between Copenhagen and Aarhus or Jutland or out in the farmland (and I suppose you could argue for a 5th one around Soenderborg because it's basically on the German border - and I don't have my fancy keyboard here like I do on the cell, so no special characters).

Mike Ratledge wrote:

Maddest Hammer wrote:Google translate did it's usual mediocre job, but I think I got the gist of it. Yes, they are nice. I was doing the happy dance while the DHL lady tried to hand me the electronic signer. Did I mention the cards are beautiful? Truly amazing.

It always does - it's too darned literal with translations and doesn't do a darned thing for "local color", regional dialects or anything else. Danish is especially frustrating since there are 4 distinct dialects and even certain words change between Copenhagen and Aarhus or Jutland or out in the farmland (and I suppose you could argue for a 5th one around Soenderborg because it's basically on the German border - and I don't have my fancy keyboard here like I do on the cell, so no special characters).

Have you ever translated something from English through several languages, finally back into English, like:

1. English to Dutch
2. Dutch to French
3. French to Spanish
4. Spanish to Hebrew
5. Hebrew to Portuguese
6. Portuguese to English

The result is seldom bears much resemblance to what you started with, and is usually pretty funny.

There are probably web pages out there which automate the process for you. (or, there should be such pages, anyway).