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Playing Card Plethora / 1st Anniversary Edition of Card Culture
« on: December 15, 2015, 10:19:43 PM »
What a fantastic edition celebrating a year of this clever newsletter which covers all aspects of collecting both new and old playing cards. It is issued monthly to members of 52 Plus Joker.

If you haven't yet joined us yet, you should.  Card Culture is just one of the great perks!

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A Cellar of Fine Vintages / Card Culture
« on: March 19, 2015, 02:45:31 PM »
What can I say about Card Culture?

I CAN say, as the forever-editor of Clear the Decks (CTD) 52 Plus Joker's quarterly magazine, that I am blown away by this new and exciting newsletter.  It was conceived and put together by Lee Asher and Don Boyer, with a little assistance from Tom Dawson and what a masterful job they have done! The articles are varied and interesting, covering a combination of new and old card collectibles. They have attracted a group of card collectors and designers who are sharing their passion for playing cards through the pages of Card Culture. We have a number of members who are collecting the wonderful new decks, many of which are being introduced through various websites including this one.  Many are clever and original and obviously, as we have known for years, each card is really an individual work of art.
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Don't miss Tom's article on what is possibly the oldest COMPLETE deck in existence.  What a deck to dream about!

Kudos
Judy

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Playing Card Plethora / Court Card Beginnings
« on: March 20, 2014, 02:10:14 PM »
I thought that perhaps I might give card collectors a bit of information about card designs.  The court cards as we know them today are very similar to the early French cards, the prototypes for the cards we still use today. Although the courts in those days were single-ended the colorings and costumes are quite recognizable today. Many playing decks with completely different court designs have been produced over many years to try to sell players on a different style but it has never worked.   Card players prefer to stick to the familiar.

The first two rows show French cards, all in the 1690 to 1710 range - those on the bottom row are mid-1700.  If you look closely at the Queen of Hearts in that row you can figure out why my user namer is Heartq!

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A Cellar of Fine Vintages / Early Standard Court Cards
« on: March 18, 2014, 08:51:33 AM »
 I have been wanting to discuss the court cards in a deck in relation to what are commonly known as standard designs. The following deck was published c1860 by Dondorf, undoubtedly one of the finest German playing card manufacturers ever. Here we see these beautiful, colorful courts which are clearly recognizable as Kings Queens and Jacks and can see that they are based on the oldest standard playing card patterns. The Kings and Queens are three-quarter length and the Jacks, full-length with legs. Single-ended courts such as these were common until the mid-19th century, when they were slowly replaced by double-ended courts, making them much easier to see when playing card games.  Several manufacturers at this time were experimenting with decorative versions of the standard International pattern but this is probably the most outstanding example of this type.
Check out the following fabulous website for more information on this fantastic company as well as other great examples of early playing cards and manufacturers.
http://www.wopc.co.uk/germany/dondorf/

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Playing Card Plethora / A bit of fun for playing card lovers
« on: February 18, 2014, 03:53:12 PM »
I recently found this bit of fun for all you designers which was tucked away among our many playing card items.

Check out the playing card club's auction at www.52plusjoker.org

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Although there have been many wonderful Transformation decks published for over 200 years, the Murphy Varnish deck ranks at the top of  the best ever decks.  Published in 1879 it features amazing, clever court cards, great transformed pip cards (the pips on the front of the card have been incorporated into the design of the card).  It qualifies in the Hochman Encyclopedia of American Playing Cards as not only a Transformation deck but also as an advertising deck as there are advertising slogans for Murphy Varnish on almost every card.  Perhaps there are members out there in Discourseland who can share other Transformation decks with us.


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Introduce Yourself / Probably time I joined in!
« on: January 11, 2014, 05:00:45 PM »
I am really enjoying what I have been able to view on discourse especially those wonderful antique and vintage posts! Jackson, it is fabulous to see that your passion for playing cards is moving into the direction of old cards. You have introduced US to a world of amazing new issues and we have helped to  introduce you to very different facet of card collecting. With the help of a few of our younger members, Tom and I are learning so much more about the fabulous new designs being published and we have introduced some of them on the pages of "Clear the Decks“ the 52 Plus Joker's magazine for ALL card collectors.  We encourage you to check us out!  www.52plusjoker.org
      Happy Collecting
       Judy Dawson 

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