I had someone contact me asking where they can purchase the Stockholm17 decks and how much they cost, since that info wasn't included in my review.

Decks like these typically cost around $15.  Not all of the decks reviewed above are readily available right now, but RarePlayingCards has some of the Stockholm17 playing cards in stock for around that price range...

I still have a few of the original #17 "CardLauncher" decks for $25 on UCdecksales.com

There are three more uncuts for the Dondorf Hundertjahrkarte restoration deck, and some Dondorf restoration deck sets, also. The uncuts are only available until Monday, when I have to specify quantity.

Here are a few courts Lotrek restored:

Keeping my friends here apprised of this project, I wanted to post a note about the impending crowdfunding campaign for this project, because the limit of 250 sets isn't that many.

These will be done wirh true old world craftsmanship, but I won't repeat everything here, details are in this thread on UC: ]https://unitedcardists.com/viewtopic.php?t=9476"]

Please post inquiries there.

No doubt about that, Don.  Most states likely never anticipated our contemporary business paradigm that included a lot of shipment of decks (amongst many other things) from Kickstarter (and even Amazon).  I'd hate to have to get Alabama to make a definitive ruling on where the line is drawn between it being a 'deck' and something else - i.e. meaning that 55+ cards is not a deck.

Interestingly enough, Amazon has three processing / shipping centers in SC, and we don't pay state taxes on purchases from them even now, although of course the state made all sorts of tax concessions to get them located here.  We're supposed to report the amount of online un-taxed purchases we make on an annual basis as a "Use Tax", but for all practical purposes, it doesn't happen.  Amazon does not report it to the state.  South Carolina has some interesting taxes, like the maximum $300 for an automobile, whether it's a $5000 or $150,000 variety.

I do know that SC hasn't had tax stamps on playing card decks for at least 35 years, though.  The last time I remember seeing them on decks for sale here was about late 1970's, maybe a few years before that, and those could have been decks that had stamps on them affixed before the tax was repealed.  I know it was still in effect when I graduated from High School in 1972.  It wasn't in 1982 because I had some made for my father's Pizza Hut restaurants in South Carolina when we opened a second one in Myrtle Beach.

Don, the story has been told two albeit similar ways, and I agree that someone likely saw the opportunity to cash in on their demise. Google is your friend, as always these days.

Tom, it would be quite interesting to see the list, and I found another sealed one in blue. Obviously not that rare, but not well known, either. Interesting find. U N Co branding on the tuck and backs is unusual though - at least not something I have seen other than a very few advertising type decks.

Can anyone help ID this pair of decks? It says New York Consolidated but cancelled CDC (Consolidated Dougherty?) and the open (blue) one has a Rainbow Room advertising card inside.

The side script says "The Union News Company" - I think, hard to read. The card says "RCA Building" so maybe that helps date it? I am guessing that they were sold in the gift shop about 60 years ago, just judging by the style.

My research show that company went out of business in 1956 or 57 depending on what source you believe.

Awesome! Pictures are worth 1000 words, as they say.  I don't recall ever seeing one packaged that way.

It's not Century of Progress, and in fact has the ©1935 AoS: (and branded Neillite on the bottom)

You're the first person I have ever seen call it Neillite, which of course - it is.  The only other example I have ever seen is a pair of KEM Chicago World's Fair decks that had the silver badge missing from the case and was listed for $500.  As I recall, it did not sell.  That was 1933-34, if memory serves me well.

Neillite is Bakelite, made by Neill Co in Britain.

No bleeding of the red on my decks, though.

Yes, six colors all together.  I found this on Cypressfilms.com

(with a note that the rarest was the six deck set.)

I'm using my new e-book format, maybe just in the wrong quarter of the book?

A friend came across this yesterday, and I can't find much about it.

"V" date code, which is not in the table, but falls in the range, since there is a (C} 1932. It's an art deco with multicolor Joker:

Bridge deck, I don't find in Hochmans?

No ofense, but I still need to say SORRY first.
It is really difficult for me to be proud to tell my fellow collectors : "look, these decks are made in India..."

Dredging up an old topic, I know, but - seriously?  A Heidelberg press is a Heidelberg press whether it's sitting in India, Taipei or Erlanger.  Now, I have to agree with the other comment that a 2-color deck just doesn't cut it any more, we're looking at 10- or 12-color process right now with Chromografix, and have permission from CartaMundi to do a restoration of the Dondorf #1000 "Hundertjahrkarte" in German or "Centennial") deck that broke the company.  They have been reprinted before - with different backs that are very simple as opposed to the original 28 stone (essentially what we call 'plates' these days) having 16-color faces and 12-color backs.  The addition of metallic gold inks actually might make a truly stunning deck!  Restoration is a pains-taking process, but after a few months we should have something to show for it.  You can't just take 1000dpi scans and print the darned things, heck - 50,000,000 dpi just won't work.  It's like taking an UHD TV and showing a VHS movie.  But, that's where we are starting.  The last original deck of Dondorf #1000 I saw sold (last month on ebay.com) went for $1699.  Those reprints I mentioned were done in the 60's (I think) by Waddington's in London called "Royal Gothic" and then A.S.S. (not even going to try today, I'm a bit weary) in 1975, but both as I said have a very simplistic 4-color (CMYK) process red or blue back.

I put my $12 on Great Northern. Strange how so much shows up after so few for a long time. As usual, as soon as I looked at the picture I thought "should have gotten a back with Julia Wades-on-Water in the groupong", but. . .

Ah, forgot to mention - 1947 is correct, but still narrows it to right at a 10 year period.