Quote from: lovenugget2003 on June 13, 2016, 08:58:35 AM

Please also find the below tax stamp bicycle, I found some information about "how to date a deck", the tamp was in use from 1919 to 1924. Am I right?

The stamp itself was in use form 1894 to 1924.  Over the years, it went from being a two-cent stamp to eight cents, through the use of overprinting to indicate the new value.  If you look on your stamp's overprinting and cancellation, you can see in red that it was overprinted "8 Cts." and that it was canceled in black on "4-1-1919," or April 1, 1919 - the last nine in the year is mostly cut off, but enough of it is visible to make it positively identifiable, especially when you combine it with the period in which the card tax was eight cents - only one of the years occurred in the 1910s, the rest being in the 1920s.  After 1924, the tax went to ten cents and a new stamp was finally issued, taking this one out of circulation for good.

Quote from: lovenugget2003 on June 06, 2016, 06:22:27 AM

love these vintage decks forever

I'm just trying to imagine what cards are in the Torpedo and Mohawk tuck boxes.  As far as I've been told, they were used as "catch-all" discount brands - basically, whatever cards they had lying around they needed to get rid of went into those boxes.  In later years, one usually only found Aviators in them as they were one of the cheapest brands USPC was making.  However, the Mohawks are from between 1940-1962 and the Torpedoes are from between 1962-1965.  The tax stamps are the clue to the age.

New York Consolidated was founded in 1871, bought by USPC in 1894 and run independently by them until 1930, at which point they were merged with A. Dougherty to form Consolidated Dougherty Co. - the Mohawks have a CDC cancellation on the stamp while the box says NY Consolidated.  It was common enough to continue using the old company names after the merger of the two - until the box redesign in 1992, Bee boxes state the NY Consolidated name on the face, while new Tally Ho boxes still state the A. Dougherty name today.  In 1962, USPC decided to disband/absorb CDC into the parent company, taking all their brands and marketing them as USPC brands - the Torpedoes have a USPC cancellation on the stamp.  Though to be honest, I'm not 100% sure if Torpedoes were a CDC brand or if they were USPC all along, in which case one can only say the deck is from sometime between 1940-1965.  "One Pack" tax stamps (both the square and rectangular versions) were created and used from 1940 until the tax was repealed near the end of 1965, to be replaced by the manufacturers' seals we know today.

Thus, both decks are no older than 1940, but the Mohawks are no younger than 1962 while the Torpedoes could be as young as 1965.  If the Torpedoes box has any CDC, NYCC or AD markings on it, then it can't be older than 1962 because of the USPC cancellation.