I've come across a deck that is wrapped in paper with the appropriately cancelled and dated USIR tax stamp. It's a deck well known from the 1910s. The decks (2 decks (red/blue), one sealed) came with a rack of bakelite chips in a leather/leatherette case. The case has no embossing, labelling, or indicators of any kind. The chips are also featureless.
Did NYCCC ever put out a poker set? That could explain the paper-wrapped decks.