Today, I thought I would take a brief break from introducing previously unseen or unknown variations of playing cards in order to share a pair of photographs of an outstanding early advertising piece for Andrew Dougherty's longest running brand, Tally-Ho # 9. The front is in glorious color and shows a wonderful interpretation of the brand name with all the courts riding in a coach which has a Tally-Ho Ace of Spades on it's door. Unfortunately, this piece itself is undated but it does mention that this brand is "The First Cheap Enameled Playing Card Introduced to the Trade July 1st, 1885." The back of this piece provides more information about this brand and shows an example of the early joker with the small printing of "Joker" in the two corners. This advertisement appeared in the pharmacy journal "The Western Druggist" which was published from 1884-1928.
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