[Chuqii] KEM collection and lots of antique and vintage decks from all over

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The oddity of these faces pull me in as well. Cuquii's decks are amazing, and it is so great he takes the time to share these decks. Here is a post I made about a deck he showed a little over a year ago:

I just had to laugh when I saw these royalty.

They look like they were seriously drunk the night before, especially the queen.

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Thanks for pointing these out. That QS is for the ages.

[Chuqii]

It's Ephemera Friday. Below is a 1901 booklet from US Playing Card Co, "Simple Whist". Great depiction of the card backs of the day on the front and back cover. There are a few backs here that I have not seen anywhere else.

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Mailman Monday

Here one of the original Willis W. Russell Blue Ribbon decks that still has the patented Substitute card in case one of your cards goes missing. c1906

*** And check out my update to a previous post on Bicycle Tuck boxes here - viewtopic.php?p=223127#p223127 ****

[Chuqii]

Ephemera Friday, once again. Here's a lovely c1903 ad for Congress Playing Cards presenting some of USPCC's latest designs.

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Seeing the toboggan deck reminded me about my wife's grandparents. They are Russian and met as kids when her grandfather was sledding with his friends on a hill in Moscow using his hand-built sled, which he kindly let her use. He was very good at building things, even from a young age. She had a lot of fun and was impressed. The rest is history.

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Mailman Monday (Tuesday edition)

c1906 Willis W. Russell Regulars (Honest Seconds). Featuring the Russell Long Distance Pips, where the Spades and Hearts are shaded to differentiate them more from the Clubs and Diamonds.

[Chuqii]

Another Tuesday edition of Mailman Monday (FedEx delay)

Dougherty Empire No 97

Andrew Dougherty Empire No 97 in a different back than the one I posted 5 years ago on this thread. I showed the hearts back then, so it’s the clubs turn this time.

And here is the same back in a c1940s Lord Baltimore deck (note the 2 digit zip code on the extra cards) currently on eBay. Always interesting when company recycles a prior company's back design. And to make it narrow all they had to do was remove the border.

[Chuqii]

Ephemera Friday!

Here's a nice companion piece to the 1903 Congress ad listed above. Another 1903 Congress ad.

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Mailman Monday

Here are two Bicycle Dealer's Choice sets c2000, one of which was for the Canadian market. The green box has that odd Ace of Spades variant on box. The games included aren't a bad selection of home poker games. You can also note the differences in the Bicycle tuck for the US and Canadian markets.

[Chuqii]

Ephemera Friday once again. Here is a selection of private die playing card tax stamps from before the IRS created their own, plus some of the early IRS stamps. For the private die, I've got Mauger and Petrie, Dougherty, NYCCC, Paper Fabrique. Nice hi-res scans, so give them a zoom. As a bonus for me, the red two cent has my initials (CHB).

[Chuqii]

Mailman Monday - Two complete ARRCO bridge decks packaged as Admiral Playing Cards with a nice bucking bronco back. c1940s I'd guess.

[Chuqii]

A few posts ago I highlighted USPCC's repurposing of the Dougherty Empire back in a Lord Baltimore bridge set. Turns out this was not the only Dougherty back design recycled for the Lord Baltimore line. The Lord Baltimore poker deck (whose back design I quite like) used one of the early Tally-Ho backs. Check it out.

[Chuqii]

Nothing of note from the mailman last week, so here's one from the collection I've never posted before. Kalamazoo Playing Card Co. Cricket brand c1910

[GandalfPC]

The name “Kalamazoo” comes from a Potawatomi word, first found in a British report in 1772. The Kalamazoo River, which passes through the modern city of Kalamazoo, was located on the route between Detroit and Fort Saint-Joseph (nowadays Niles, Michigan). French-Canadian traders, missionaries, and military personnel were quite familiar with this area during the French era and thereafter. The Kalamazoo River was then known by Canadians and French as La rivière Kikanamaso. The name "Kikanamaso" was also recorded by Father Pierre Potier, a Jesuit missionary for the Huron-Wendats at the Assumption mission (south shore of Detroit), while en route to Fort Saint-Joseph during the fall of 1760.[10] Legend has it that "Ki-ka-ma-sung", meaning "boiling water", referred to a footrace held each fall by local Native Americans, in which participants had to run to the river and back before a pot boiled.[11] The word negikanamazo, purported to mean "otter tail" or "stones like otters", has also been cited as a possible origin of the name.[12] Another theory is that it means "the mirage or reflecting river".[13] Another legend is that the image of "boiling water" referred to fog on the river as seen from the hills above the current downtown. The name was also given to the river that flows almost all the way across the state.

The name Kalamazoo, which sounds unusual to English speakers, has become a metonym for exotic places, as in the phrase "from Timbuktu to Kalamazoo".[14] Today, T-shirts are sold in Kalamazoo with the phrase "Yes, there really is a Kalamazoo".[15]

[Chuqii]

Ephemera Friday, once again, though this item is not so ephemeral. This is an aluminum playing card case from The H. Jackson Co. of Covington, KY., c1905. The case is in great shape, though missing what was likely a ribbon that held the case shut and missing the cards. There is a great write-up of Mr. H Jackson and his case and cards over at The Forgotten People of Playing Cards, https://fpopc.weebly.com/the-h-jackson-company.html

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What an interesting deck. Thanks for the linked article. it was an....entertaining... read. I did like the question on the manufacturer of the case and it's similarity to another aluminum case manufactured around the same time. They definitely look like they were manufactured by the same firm, but one or the other might have just extensively designed their case from the other and had a different manufacturer make similar cases by design. Either way, it definitely seems that one designed their case after the other and borrowed many elements.

[Chuqii]

Another slow mail week, so it's back to the archives for this 1895 Andrew Dougherty Tournament Whist No. 63 deck of playing cards. It's nice when they stamp the date on there on big red letters.

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Mailman did a better job this week. Here's a c1915 Andrew Dougherty Red Seal deck. This is one of the harder to find Dougherty brands.

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Two for one from the mailman this week. c1884 Dougherty Indicator deck with joker and a great back design that came in a US Playing Cards Russel, Morgan & Co. box. The design on the box matches the Ace of Spades for an early c1883 R&M Steamboat deck that I have, so I assume this box was for the early Steamboat decks (and maybe earlier than my deck since the box is Russell Morgan & Co . and the cards are Russel & Morgan Co.) Unfortunately, my deck has expanded so much that it won't fit in the box, but I can still display them together.

[Chuqii]

Here is a unique playing card presentation of Heirloom Playing Cards from Arrow Playing Card Co c1930. Arrow became ARRCO around 1935.

The box has two compartments. The top lid actually lifts off and has an inset where the small framed print sits. Then you lift off the housing for the framed print, and under that is the base with the deck of cards. Lucky me, this one is still sealed. Never seen anything like this before. Its a lot of work for one deck of cards.

[Chuqii]

It's Ephemera Friday. Here is the front and back and a few pages from the 1974 Hoyle catalog. The 36 page catalog showcases everything under the Hoyle brand: games, cards, clocks, calendars, prints, posters, poker chips, and more.

[Chuqii]

Mailman was good to me this Monday.

Globe Playing Cards, c1878 - 68 Cornhill Street, Boston. This is very similar to the other Globe deck I posted back in December ( search.php?keywords=globe&t=6900&sf=msgonly ) just a little older, different color, better condition, and with a different address.

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Ephemera Friday! Here are a selection of USPCC Fashion Series ads c1900 from McClure's Magazine.

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If your dealer will not supply you -- change dealers

How rare/common are the "Entertaining With Cards" booklets these days?

[Chuqii]

They come up fairly often. I’ll post mine next week.

I found one at abebooks https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDe ... 1-_-title9

And there’s one on ebay

[GandalfPC]

My favorite quote: “Many a good card party was spoiled by poor cards.”

[Chuqii]

Mailman Monday - the last of the Bicycle Cincinnati, OH blue seal decks. This is more a curiosity than anything else, but I thought the blue seals ended before the transition to the Bicycle Standard tuck. I was wrong. I have red and blue Standard tuck decks with the blue seal. The red deck is open and has Cincinnati cards inside with an "L" date code which corresponds to 2009, so I'm claiming these to be the last of the Cincinnati, OH blue seal Bicycle cards.

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Ephemera Friday with bonus content! Here are three pages from my 1922 NYCCC Hoyle's Rules for Card Games book showing the variety of Bee backs designs at the time. As a bonus, I added a Bee Seconds deck with Back No 221 in an Eclipse No 432 box that just arrived. I don't think that Eclipse had any set back designs, I think NYCCC would throw any old deck into an Eclipse box as a way to move old or imperfect stock out the door. Here's a link to a full version of the 1926 edition of the NYCCC book courtesy of the Internet Archive (card pics are at the back of the book): https://archive.org/details/hoylesrulesforca00hoyl