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These are coming out soon, but I can't say from where yet.








CBJ

my guess T11, D&D or maybe Coterie

Looking forward to these. Kete Moon posted some photos on his instagram over the past few weeks.

I'm getting tired of all these JN or Wynn imitators. The back design on these puts me to sleep....

alric wrote:I'm getting tired of all these JN or Wynn imitators. The back design on these puts me to sleep....

Same here. Pimped out box to make them sell better, minimal amount of work put in on the actual cards. Obvious moneygrab.

Not sure why not name the company but since Kete has it I'm going with Coterie!

vmagic wrote:Not sure why not name the company but since Kete has it I'm going with Coterie!

Not from Zenneth/Coterie

Hey guys,

A quick clarification here, this deck is not from T11, D&D or Coterie. I thought it's pretty clear that none of us would associate 1902 with cardistry?

Anyway, this deck is from the same maker of Bicycle Faith and Bicycle Lancer Ex, in fact there is one more Bee deck on the way which is called "Miracle" deck. All I can say is that the release of Coterie Bee had too much impact on Chinese playing cards collectors.

Zenneth

Zenneth wrote:Hey guys,

I thought it's pretty clear that none of us would associate 1902 with cardistry?

That's a good point!

alric wrote:I'm getting tired of all these JN or Wynn imitators. The back design on these puts me to sleep....

I love minimal designs like this, I'm really looking forward to these as long as they're not extremely limited (=expensive).

Decks with minimal designs are great....if they're well executed. Because of their simplicity, you really have to get what little you have put into the design really spot on. Otherwise, it just looks like incomplete, or even worse, lazy design. I'm not sure the word "Quality" in flowing script on each end of the back design evokes any kind of elegance, innovation, or even effort. I'm also not getting how this is a Bee deck, other than just the tuck box saying its so.

You know what I'm actually a bit excited for this deck...I love Bee's and the simple designs are actually something I appreciate when done right. I'll be keeping my eyes on this project.

A video of the decks...


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgQcXug2 ... e=youtu.be[/youtube]


CBJ

Wow, not even a video made these look even slightly more exciting. Mega-yawn

The cardistry in the video is good, the cards are not...

More pics








CBJ

Looks like a collectors deck - box looks good.... cards not so much

EDIT: Not having a go at CBJ, I'm pretty much exactly the same - just nice sealed boxes with cellophane. In this case I quite like the vintage look of the front of the box.... but that's about it.

Gareth wrote:Looks like a collectors deck - box looks good.... cards not so much

EDIT: Not having a go at CBJ, I'm pretty much exactly the same - just nice sealed boxes with cellophane. In this case I quite like the vintage look of the front of the box.... but that's about it.

Indeed, the only thing really nice about this is the vintage tuckbox

They're on ebay...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Quality-Bee-RED ... 19e48255fa" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I´ve got this email today from the qualitybee website

Hello there .

Till a lot of international playing card collectors sent us Email ask about how to order Quality Bee Deck from outside of China. Here we has a surprise for you today!

We are ready to release 500 decks to international . Everyone who not living in china are welcome to order at this time. This will be the ONLY chance to purchase Quality bee Deck .

Price: $13.80 /deck ( 1 Brick have 10 ％ OFF ） .Limited to 2 dozen/person

All international orders will ship from U.S.A. For all orders: 1-3 decks ship by USPS 1st class, 4-24 decks ship by USPS Priority

U.S.A

Quantity︱ Postage

1-3 decks | $ 4.2

4-12 decks ︱ $9.5

13－24 decks | $ 14

Other countries:

1 deck ︱ $9

2 decks ︱ $11

3 decks ︱ $11

4-12 decks ︱ $18.95

13-24 decks | $ 26

No words about which color you will get - since there is a red and a black version shown on the pics @ http://www.qualitybeedeck.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
(i think the blue card which is shown is just a extra card in the red deck - like a gaff card)
Anyways buying from the HK dealers at $17.95 incl. shipping worldwide is the way better deal!

Thsi is waaay too expesnive imo :s

Black decks were a test run. Highly unlikely to be available on the market. I think it even says Test Deck on the tuck.

Verloren wrote:Black decks were a test run. Highly unlikely to be available on the market. I think it even says Test Deck on the tuck.

USPCC doesn't do teat runs like that. Will they print a sample deck, that is not the same quality? Yes but they aren't running a couple of hundred decks.

Thanks!

Mike, I wanna see one of those teat runs. Got any in stock?

Widdee wrote:Mike, I wanna see one of those teat runs. Got any in stock?

I think i might have some pink ones in stock. I also have some purple ones in stock as well

Thanks!

BMPokerworld wrote:

Widdee wrote:Mike, I wanna see one of those teat runs. Got any in stock?

I think i might have some pink ones in stock. I also have some purple ones in stock as well

Thanks!

Gimme two!

A little update for those who like these Bee decks like myself.

So we initially had the red deck



Of course there was the mandatory limited edition ultra rare blah blah which is the only one I do not have at this time because it goes for hundreds on ebay (288 made)



Then you have the Miracle Bee blue deck and Black decks





All of these decks made by the USPCC

Then the oddball Quality brown deck through EPCC I do believe but not confirmed



Recently CBJ spotted a blue deck on a chinese website but we could not tell really what it was. Finally spotted one on ebay and got it



The story on this deck according to the seller is that USPCC made a printing mistake when doing this deck and it has 2 Queen of Hearts with the queen of diamonds missing. Supposedly all decks were destroyed except 288 of them and he is selling them at $14.5 a pop plus shipping. The reprint deck will have a reprint seal to tell them apart. I picked one up and here s the ebay link if any of you might be interested

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