Collector from Hong Kong

[lovenugget2003]

Hello,

I live in Hong Kong, I only collecting playing cards and play a little cardistry about three years. My first deck is Bicycle ECO Playing Cards that I bought in a salon. Yes, very interesting, the boss of the salon is a magican and cardist. He open a salon and selling palying cards too, he has a lot of playing cards, wynn, SM, Arrco, Tally Ho, Bicycle, Bee, Artifice, Sentinels, JAQK, Stingers, Black Ghost, Arcane....etc. Finally I choose the ECO deck because it was only $45 HKD, and I begin my journey of cardistry.

Then I collected more and more decks, I love Bee series since school age, so I collect different kind of Bee Playing Cards, the standard verison, the internaitonal version, Casino Bee and Tax Stamp version. The other kind of playing cards are also attracting me, The old Vagas Casino cards. I'm looking for those Golden Nugget cards and Silver Slipper cards in these years, they are classic and elegant. However, most of the cardist in Hong Kong tell me that Jerry's Nugget should be more valuable than the others, but I only want to collect the cards that I like. Some of the new custom decks are impress me, like the Seasons series and the Aurum Deck. Now a days, all of the world focus on Kickstarter, we are looking forward to the new design of those great playing cards. I wish I could meet other collectors, sellers, cardist and learn more about cards. I will post some of my collection in Show us your cards very soon.

Glad to be here.
Nelson

[Don Boyer]

Hello,

I live in Hong Kong, I only collecting playing cards and play a little cardistry about three years. My first deck is Bicycle ECO Playing Cards that I bought in a salon. Yes, very interesting, the boss of the salon is a magican and cardist. He open a salon and selling palying cards too, he has a lot of playing cards, wynn, SM, Arrco, Tally Ho, Bicycle, Bee, Artifice, Sentinels, JAQK, Stingers, Black Ghost, Arcane....etc. Finally I choose the ECO deck because it was only $45 HKD, and I begin my journey of cardistry.

Then I collected more and more decks, I love Bee series since school age, so I collect different kind of Bee Playing Cards, the standard verison, the internaitonal version, Casino Bee and Tax Stamp version. The other kind of playing cards are also attracting me, The old Vagas Casino cards. I'm looking for those Golden Nugget cards and Silver Slipper cards in these years, they are classic and elegant. However, most of the cardist in Hong Kong tell me that Jerry's Nugget should be more valuable than the others, but I only want to collect the cards that I like. Some of the new custom decks are impress me, like the Seasons series and the Aurum Deck. Now a days, all of the world focus on Kickstarter, we are looking forward to the new design of those great playing cards. I wish I could meet other collectors, sellers, cardist and learn more about cards. I will post some of my collection in Show us your cards very soon.

Glad to be here.
Nelson

We're glad to have you here, Nelson.  We have a few collectors that hang out here who specialize in casino decks, and the Golden Nugget in particular.  As far as Jerry's Nugget decks go, there's a few reasons why they're as valuable as they are, not the least of which being some degree of speculation that's been going on - but there's no denying that they are popular, as many magicians and cardists have used them in their videos.

Sounds like a good Bee collection.  Did you get the Canadian version?  How about the Richard Turner Bees?  The Turner Bees are very hard to find these days, but Canadian Bees are common enough - in Canada!  They're very similar to the International Bees, except that (as required by Canadian law) all the writing on the package is in both English and French.  I also have seen a Chinese version that has holograms etched into the cellophane as an anti-counterfeiting measure.

Yes, most of the new deck activity is taking place on Kickstarter.  A talented graphic artist with knowledge of print work who's never made a deck before can go there and create a popular deck relatively easily, compared to what it was like before crowdfunding existed.

I noticed your poll.  You'll find that while the majority of the people here are from North America (mostly the US and Canada), there's a very healthy percentage of the members who are from various Asia countries, including Hong Kong.  Lots of Singaporeans - we occasionally get people trading in person over there!  There's some Europeans, mostly from Great Britain and Northern Europe, and there's more than a few Australians as well.

We look forward to seeing your collection!