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Playing Card Plethora / Kickstarter: ERINUS ETERNA playing cards
« Last post by oxaliscard on March 26, 2024, 06:36:53 AM »
Erinus Eterna is live now on Kickstarter, we're really excited about it! Check out the project and we thank you in advance if you will help us make it happen.
 
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/oxalis-playing-cards/erinus-eterna-playing-cards

QUICK SUMMARY
 
DECK AT LAUNCH: Gold (Standard & Gilded) Rose (Standard & Gilded) Arbor (Special Edition)

   
  • Limited edition
        Tuck box 330gsm with cardstock premium
        Two colours in foil on tuck case
        Embossing on tuck case
        Three differents color of the back of the card ( CMYK Stamp)
        310gsm premium German linen card stock with black core (Butter Finish)
        100% Custom design ( Box, Back of the card, Aces, Courts, Pips, Joker)
        THE EDITIONS (GILDED & ARBOR) HAVE ADDITIONAL FEATURES



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Sorry, the VCC is for copyrights. I guess what was copyrighted was the brand name of the deck. What was patented were the Roman numeral indices for the extra cards as seen in the description tab in the Espacenet link.

USPCC couldn't patent the new ranks because they were previously patented by Isaac Levy of the NYCCC back in 1876. They did nothing with it and let it lapse into public domain.
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This is incredible information. Thanks.
It'll take me awhile to think about this and to follow up with the "Virtual Card Catalog" which I did not know anything about.

Right now, I'm just trying to understand the card and what it means.
Do you know exactly what was being patented? Was it the ace of spades? I would have thought the aces were just trademarked.
Also, is there any more info that can be retrieved about the patent?

Copyright Assignor: U.S. Playing Card Company - (New Jersey)

Full house poker playing cards, no. 555
Spanish cards, no. 95.
Trophy whist playing cards
New poker deck, National Meth (rev) dup, whist
Assigned to | U.S. Playing Card Company - (Ohil).
Original proprietor | U.S. Playing Card Company.
Original entry | 1895: No, 65923 _ 5927, inv.
Assignment recorded | Assignment book v 78 p. 9,
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Kickstarter - Entwined Volume 4: Spring Playing Cards

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/oldgravity/entwined-volume-4-spring-playing-cards-deck

Luxury playing cards based on the ballet of nature and freedom of spirit

Project ends: Thurs, 11 April 2024

Spring is the season of life, when nature awakens from the icy cold of winter, streams flow, flowers emerge, and colours burst forth.  It is this joyous beauty of nature that is captured by this custom deck of luxury playing cards. 



This is the fourth in a series of gorgeous and high quality artistic decks of playing cards produced by Old Gravity, which consists of artist Ritu Bhattacharya and designer Bivas Bhattacharjee.  The team has already produced three gorgeous Entwined decks that correspond to the other three seasons.  The Spring deck is Vol 4, but it can be enjoyed as a work of art on its own, or alongside with the previous three entries in the series.

Spring Gold deck

Just as with previously Entwined decks, there are two main options, a Gold deck and a Rose deck.  Firstly there's the Spring Gold deck, which has a tuck box with lavish olive-gold foil and embossing.



The court cards really showcase Ritu's lovely artwork, and evoke feelings of spring, life, and dance.







The Aces feature oversized pips and stylish art.



One of the things I really like about this deck is the special attention given to the number cards.  These adopt a semi-transformation style, with the value of each card corresponding to the number of pip-shaped leaves on tree branches.




The Jokers also look charming.



Spring Rose deck

While the Gold deck has olive-gold foil on the card backs and tuck box, the Rose deck instead uses rose-gold foil.  Here's the exquisite  tuck box from the Spring Rose deck.



The card backs feature an elegant swan design, with shimmering foil for a true luxury look.





The decks are being printed by playing card manufacturer NPCC, which is especially well known for producing high end luxury tuck boxes. 

Collector's Box

As with previous project, discerning collectors wanting to get the very best option available can pledge to get a "Collector's Box".  This is a teal-coloured luxury box that is richly decorated with rose-gold foil, and opens to reveal one of each deck, along with a special brass coin.





[size=13]The series[/size]

Collectors will love the fact that if you do have all four decks (one for each season), they make make up a single polyptych image when put alongside each other, picturing a tree of life.  This is true both for the Gold decks and for the Rose decks.



Along with the new decks, you can also get previous decks in the series as add ons.  I have a copy of the three previous Entwined decks, and they are truly stunning, and have impressed everyone I've shown them to.  I have no doubt the same this will be the case with the Spring version of this deck. 

This is a wonderful custom deck that can be enjoyed on its own, as an example of some of the very finest custom playing cards on the market today, or together with the other three decks.  Bravo Old Gravity!

Link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/oldgravity/entwined-volume-4-spring-playing-cards-deck

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I can answer some of your questions. The Full House deck was released around April 1895 for draw poker. These are the cards with "patent applied for" on them. It wasn't until the following year that it got patented.

60-card poker basically died out around 1897 so there was lots of unsold stock. USPCC tried to sell the decks for other games in their 1898 official rules book. The game of Five Hundred seems to have been first published by the USPCC in 1899. I could not find the original rules but I suspect they were played with just 52 cards plus the joker. In 1904, USPCC released another book on Five Hundred. I think this is when "500" branded decks were released because the earliest mention of six-handed Five Hundred games being played that I could find are from 1905. Hochman says the deck expanded with the red 13s in the mid-1920s but I couldn't pin down an exact year.

I've attached the 1895 patent  copyright card from the virtual card catalog here:
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I have an old deck known in Hochman, NU13. P113. It's a National Playing Card Company deck with three Palmer Cox Brownies on the joker.

I think mine is NU13 since the Ace of Spades says "Full House", not "Boston".   In reading about it in Hochman, there is a mention of there being two versions of this ace of spades. One marked "patent pending", the second with the patent date.

On mine, the 1890 patent date is cited on the box. The ace has 96 as the code. The joker has j84. There's no mention of a patent pending.


My deck:



First question, does anyone know how to find the patent that was granted? I have searched a number of ways on the US Patent database but not found anything relevant. 
https://ppubs.uspto.gov/pubwebapp/static/pages/ppubsbasic.html





I have several different versions of this joker, the others are later, perhaps Hochman 13a since they have the US corner indices.





The Second Question is more obscure. Does anyone have any idea about the intellectual property or royalty arrangement between Palmer Cox and the National Playing Card Company? Would Palmer Cox have allowed his characters to be used free by National on this and the other National Jokers such as NU18a and NU10a?


Has anyone researched this?


I have a similar royalty question on all the early Congress606 decks which used famous artwork, much of contemporary at that point, on the backs of their cards (and on the jokers in the Matching Decks). They had Dundreary on their joker for around two decades. Was all of this royalty free? Did it fall somehow under "Fair Use"? Was there any sort of agreement?

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The Ad Lucem Playing Cards project was recently fulfilled after successful funding on Kickstarter, and I just got mine in the mail yesterday.  It's a Renaissance themed deck that was produced by the collaborative efforts of Christian Buss (project visionary and art manager), Ritu Bhattacharva (lead artist/illustrator) and Bivas Bhattacharjee (digital artist and designer).

This project turned out magnificent, especially the Sovereign Edition.  The gold foil on the card faces really looks stunning, especially in combination with gilded edges.  This deck was printed by WJPC, and they've done a great job with the quality.  It turned out exactly as good as you see in the pictures below.

The artwork is beautiful, and it's a picture of class all round.  Amazing work once again from Bivas and Ritu, and from Chris!



























The special 3D rotating Renaissance coin also looks fantastic.

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A Cellar of Fine Vintages / Re: Mrs. Robinson?s bicycle card collectors handbook 1955
« Last post by I on March 04, 2024, 04:37:57 PM »
That's the site that got me into collecting! Best resource out there for all things Bicycle.
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Thanks Toby - great info.  The Colombiano deck continues to elude me after all these years...
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For those interested, Bicycle has a full scan of this handbook on their website: https://bicyclecards.org/mrs-robinsons/

That's Joe Pierson's website, fyi, not the official Bicycle website.  Joe's is way better!
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