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Feedback + Support / Re: Trouble Posting Pics
« Last post by Don Boyer on April 12, 2024, 02:50:27 PM »
Sorry it took so long to get to this.


There is s limit to the size of an image file that you can post - 3 megabytes is the ceiling, and a max of five files per post.  It's to keep the storage requirements lower.  The problem you run into, though, is that modern smartphones with built-in multi-megapixel cameras can create images that exceed this file size without much difficulty.


You can use simple image software to create a copy of your image file that's lower in resolution or smaller in size, thus reducing the size of the file.  You can also try to lower the resolution of the image in the camera software when you're taking the picture, making it easier to post without an editing step.
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Playing Card Plethora / Re: Every David Blaine Deck Released
« Last post by Don Boyer on April 12, 2024, 02:37:46 PM »
Hi,

I have listed every single deck David Blaine has made/released
There are 4 tabs:

1st tab: All Decks Including Signed and Different Seal
2nd tab: All Decks Without Signed and Different Seal
3rd tab: All Posters
4th tab: Other Memorabilia

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1P-vubve0nuC3v04tCWofItEcflCylYkOfulpTHtwwvo/edit?usp=sharing

I'm pretty sure this is everything.
Let me know if I've missed anything or needs changing.

Thanks


For the Split Spades Lions Sepia Edition, if I remember correctly, it was just a sepia card back printed on the box, while the cards inside were blue backed.  Sure, it's less common than a pack of blue-backed cards in the blue-backed box, but I don't know if I'd go as far as calling it the "Sepia Edition."  As I understand it, they considered making cards with that color, got as far as printing boxes for them, but decided before printing the cards themselves not to make the sepia backed version.  Rather than waste the boxes, they used them for blue decks.
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A Cellar of Fine Vintages / Re: Steamboat 999 Brick Box Tax Wrapper
« Last post by Don Boyer on April 12, 2024, 02:32:20 PM »
Getting to the end of selling my accumulation and not sure how rare this box and wrapper are. I know sealed decks are common and these are not original to the Box.


Any time you find even a pack of cards in the box from the "vintage era" - between 20-100 years old - it's not common.  Sealed and unused, less common.  An intact brick box like that one - I'd have to call it super rare.  It's not the kind of thing your typical playing card consumer would have gotten their hands on, unless they were buying for a poker club or something like that.  In the condition they're in - it's really an awesome find.
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Aces and Eights - the Vintage/Antique STISO Board / Re: Bicycle Singles
« Last post by Don Boyer on April 12, 2024, 02:29:09 PM »
That a c1918 USPCC salesman?s sample book I picked up a while ago. The seller was overseas, Greece, I think.


It's not simply "circa" 1918 - it's on the money 1918!  That was the only year (and not even a full year at that) in which the Victory series decks were available for sale - they were pulled off the market shortly after "the Great War" had been won.  I think they were available from April to November.  Any sales books before that wouldn't have had the samples, and any books after that would have had those decks pulled as they were no longer available - even if only by pulling the cards off the pages.
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Hello, and welcome to the forum.


I took the liberty of moving your post to a more appropriate message board.  Introduce Yourself is more for just that, introductions, while here in the Playing Card Plethora is where people come to learn about decks, new and not so new!


Let me know if you have any questions!
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A Cellar of Fine Vintages / Re: New Discovery - The Wizard's Pack
« Last post by Don Boyer on April 12, 2024, 02:21:52 PM »
I am picturing below, five photos of a recently discovered "magic" deck called The Wizard's Pack of Playing Cards, issued by Adams and Company, 25 Bromfield Street, Boston, MA., that is not in the Hochman Encyclopedia. Both the front of the OB and the inside front cover of the accompanying 8-page booklet of directions state "Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by Adams & Co., in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington." The first photo is of the front of the original box and the second photo shows the rather plain Ace of Spades. The third photo shows the KH which clearly indicates that this deck was manufactured by Dougherty. The cards are square cornered with no indices and the fourth photo shows the pattern back design. The cards measure 2 15/32" x 3 9/16" but, as is indicated in the instruction booklet, the deck has been taper cut (very subtly) so that one end is approximately 1/32" shorter than the opposite end, thus, enabling the user to perform a variety of tricks with these cards. The fifth photo shows the opening two pages from the booklet of directions. I found it interesting to note that later in that decade, The Waterproof Playing Card Co., would have their place of business several doors down at 50 Bromfield Street but Adams & Co. had already relocated to No. 4 Pearl Street in Boston by 1874. Although the name Adams was quite well known in Boston, I also had to wonder if there was any connection between the Adams who issued this deck and the famous S.S. Adams in N.J. who issued the many different marked decks some 50 years later.


Hey, Toby,


If I was a betting man, I'd wager that these cards were manufactured not so much for magic as they were for gambling, specifically cheating at gambling.  I could easily imagine a few ways that a faro dealer could take advantage of a deck like this and not have to resort to faro shuffling - perhaps it's possible that some card players were getting wise to the faro shuffling trick used by the house in order to keep the deck stacked with a certain number of tie draws, allowing them to keep all the bets made.  It's just that they look so much like a faro deck, I suspect strongly that many if not most of these decks, back when they were made, ended up on gaming tables and not in a magician's routines.
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A Cellar of Fine Vintages / New Discovery - The Wizard's Pack
« Last post by tobyedwards on April 10, 2024, 11:11:53 AM »
I am picturing below, five photos of a recently discovered "magic" deck called The Wizard's Pack of Playing Cards, issued by Adams and Company, 25 Bromfield Street, Boston, MA., that is not in the Hochman Encyclopedia. Both the front of the OB and the inside front cover of the accompanying 8-page booklet of directions state "Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by Adams & Co., in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington." The first photo is of the front of the original box and the second photo shows the rather plain Ace of Spades. The third photo shows the KH which clearly indicates that this deck was manufactured by Dougherty. The cards are square cornered with no indices and the fourth photo shows the pattern back design. The cards measure 2 15/32" x 3 9/16" but, as is indicated in the instruction booklet, the deck has been taper cut (very subtly) so that one end is approximately 1/32" shorter than the opposite end, thus, enabling the user to perform a variety of tricks with these cards. The fifth photo shows the opening two pages from the booklet of directions. I found it interesting to note that later in that decade, The Waterproof Playing Card Co., would have their place of business several doors down at 50 Bromfield Street but Adams & Co. had already relocated to No. 4 Pearl Street in Boston by 1874. Although the name Adams was quite well known in Boston, I also had to wonder if there was any connection between the Adams who issued this deck and the famous S.S. Adams in N.J. who issued the many different marked decks some 50 years later.
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This project has now unlocked the stretch goal for inner foiling and custom seals for all decks.







In addition, the latest update announces a special Kickstarter-exclusive Noir Edition of these decks.  This includes a special collector's box (with fractal holographic foil), which comes with a noir nickel swan Spring coin, and two limited edition numbered decks:
- Noir Gun Metal - Cyan
- Noir Silver - Black













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We are delighted to tell you guys about our latest project: Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire? Playing Cards
It's glad to collab with Legendary Picture & Toho to have this Official License Playing Cards collection with Room One

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/roomonecards/godzilla-x-kong-playing-cards
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