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I've been considering putting together a collection of Uusi gilded decks with the acceptance that it will be an expensive and long project. However just how long and expensive is an open question that I was hoping to get people's thoughts on. I'd be starting from scratch and only looking at the poker decks and ignoring the gilded tarots.

Here is what I understand on the gilded decks atm:

- Pagan Dark -50-80x Gold Gilded made as part of Kickstarter Add-on. Original price $75 for kickstarter for 30 sold as add-ons. Uusi then offered 50 of them for $125 on their website in 2014, unclear if the 30 kickstarter were part of the 50 quoted run for the uusi store.
- Pagan Ivory - 50x Gold as part of the above mentioned uusi store sale. $125 each
- Pagan Dark - 25x Copper sold on uusi website. Original Price $150
- Pagan Ivory - 25x Copper uusi website. Original Price $150
- Pagan Blue - 30x Gold from Otherworld Tarot kickstarter Priginal price $100

- Blue Blood - 1x (yes 1) Sterling silver $185 from uusi website

- Bohemia red - 25x Goldl from uusi store. $125 each from uusi website
- Bohemia blue - 25x Gold from uusi store $125 each from uusi website
- Bohemia Red Smooth tuck - 50x Gold, $180 each through later sale on uusi website. According to Don Boyer these were made because of a tuck misprint from USPC

- Royal Optik black - 25x Gold from uusi store $125 each from uusi website
- Royal Optik red - 25x Gold from uusi store $125 each from uusi website

- Blue Blood Redux - 25x sterling silver decks from uusi store $125 each

- Brut - 50x Copper - 30x sold as addon from kicsktarter, other 20 ?? $100 on kickstarter

- Classic Red - 50x Gold - $150 each, 20 sold through uusi website and 25 on original kickstarter for $85 each
- Classic Blue - 50x Silver- $150 each, 20 sold through uusi website and 25 on original kickstarter for $85 each
- Classic Blue Error - 5x Erroneously gilded gold, then silver on top. not sure if subset of 50 silver above or in addition
- Classic gold and silver artist proof seal (looking for details on these)

- Hotcakes Red - 50x Neon Yellow (not gold) from original kickstarter. Original $125 for set of red and black neon yellow
- Hotcakes Black - 50x Neon Yellow (not gold) from original kickstarer


Availability / Price Today
It looks like all the pagan, blue blood, and bohemia decks sold out in the first day or week in 2014. Though I think I recall hearing that the gilded classics,optiks, and a few copper pagans were available still in 2016 but definitely sold out by 2019? In the last six months that I've been passively thinking about this I've only seen one ebay listing for any of the above, red/blue classics for 350 each from italy. I know a few people have put up WTB threads here on the forums but looks like no action what so ever.

However, some of you are much more industrious and knowledgeable than I am so let me know if you've seen any supply in other places over the years and what the prices might be that you've seen. I strongly suspect this would be a fools errand for me, but shineys//

Link to uusi post on the hand gilding for their decks https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/12 ... ts/1049712 and the uusi blog post https://uusi.us/blogs/gibber-ish/147408 ... lded-decks

2014 Launch discussion from http://www.playingcardforum.com/index.php?topic=6870.0

Gratuitous photo shoot that dead pixel made on reddit and originally got me thinking about this. https://www.reddit.com/r/playingcards/c ... _uusi_set/

I'm dead serious when I say before I would start that journey, I would simply learn how to hand gild my standard decks .

Sounds like a fun (read: expensive) project, however there's nothing quite like a good ol' fashioned White Whale hunt

FYI:
We used to have a Gold Gilded Brut Poker deck.

Sold for £150 GBP back in Sept 2018.

Welcome to the special whale chasing madness of Uusi’s gilded decks. I’ve bought and sold a few Uusi gilded decks here on UC over the years. They do occasionally come up, and are gone just as fast.

Some other ones for your list:

Classic gold and Silver gilded artist proof seal
Blue Classic “error” deck - only 5 in existence. Erroneously gilded gold, then silver on top.
Hotcakes neon yellow gilded
Pagan blue (as per your photo) run of 30 offered in Pagan Otherworlds Kickstarter campaign.

You’ll see the Classics and the Hotcakes pop up on EBay more than the others. From experience I think the Pagans (all of them, but particularly the rarer copper ones) and Royal Optiks tend to demand the highest value sales (Other than the solitary Blue Blood of course)

As already mentioned, its quite the task obtaining them, but worth it.

Harvonsgard wrote: ↑Thu Mar 25, 2021 10:24 pm I'm dead serious when I say before I would start that journey, I would simply learn how to hand gild my standard decks .

Sad but true.

Siege wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 6:41 am Welcome to the special whale chasing madness of Uusi’s gilded decks. I’ve bought and sold a few Uusi gilded decks here on UC over the years. They do occasionally come up, and are gone just as fast.

Some other ones for your list:

Classic gold and Silver gilded artist proof seal
Blue Classic “error” deck - only 5 in existence. Erroneously gilded gold, then silver on top.
Hotcakes neon yellow gilded
Pagan blue (as per your photo) run of 30 offered in Pagan Otherworlds Kickstarter campaign.

You’ll see the Classics and the Hotcakes pop up on EBay more than the others. From experience I think the Pagans (all of them, but particularly the rarer copper ones) and Royal Optiks tend to demand the highest value sales (Other than the solitary Blue Blood of course)

As already mentioned, its quite the task obtaining them, but worth it.

Cool, I'll add those to the initial post as well. Do you remember rough prices that you paid/sold for over the last three years? Any other places I should be checking for listings?

traaaf wrote: ↑Wed Mar 31, 2021 1:01 am

Harvonsgard wrote: ↑Thu Mar 25, 2021 10:24 pm I'm dead serious when I say before I would start that journey, I would simply learn how to hand gild my standard decks .

Sad but true.

Siege wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 6:41 am Welcome to the special whale chasing madness of Uusi’s gilded decks. I’ve bought and sold a few Uusi gilded decks here on UC over the years. They do occasionally come up, and are gone just as fast.

Some other ones for your list:

Classic gold and Silver gilded artist proof seal
Blue Classic “error” deck - only 5 in existence. Erroneously gilded gold, then silver on top.
Hotcakes neon yellow gilded
Pagan blue (as per your photo) run of 30 offered in Pagan Otherworlds Kickstarter campaign.

You’ll see the Classics and the Hotcakes pop up on EBay more than the others. From experience I think the Pagans (all of them, but particularly the rarer copper ones) and Royal Optiks tend to demand the highest value sales (Other than the solitary Blue Blood of course)

As already mentioned, its quite the task obtaining them, but worth it.

Cool, I'll add those to the initial post as well. Do you remember rough prices that you paid/sold for over the last three years? Any other places I should be checking for listings?

There’s a listing on EBay right now for both Hotcakes gilded decks for $555. Generally they go for anything north of $250/$300

It's starting.... a little bit of old and a little bit of new.

2014 Pagan Dark Gold Gilded
2021 Pagan Otherworlds Red gilded

Harvonsgard wrote: ↑Thu Mar 25, 2021 10:24 pm I'm dead serious when I say before I would start that journey, I would simply learn how to hand gild my standard decks .

Another alternative is to wrap cards around gold ingots

I'm not sure but I guess that might negatively effect the handling, lol.