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A Plethera of Playing Card Scans
« on: February 06, 2013, 12:18:34 PM »
 

RSLancastr

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Okay, here are scans from a few cards from each of more than 100 decks in my collection.

Some of them (the older decks) are scans I made for my old web site, "The Bob Lancaster Gallery of Unusual Playing Cards" (The BLGUPC), in which I would show six images from each deck I displayed:

- A Heart Card
- A Club Card
- A Diamond Card
- A Spade Card
- A Joker
- A Back

When I started collecting again (about two years ago), I decided I would scan some cards from every deck that I purchased, in hopes of adding them some day to a resuscitated version of the BLGUPC.

In addition to the six images mentioned above, I added two more:

- An Additional Card (a Title Card, Advertising Card, Rules Card, Gaff Card, etc.)
- The Box front

Here then are the images.

Enjoy,

-RSL


































































































































 

Re: A Plethera of Playing Card Scans
« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2013, 01:32:01 PM »
 

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That is pretty cool.

+1 for all that work.
 

Re: A Plethera of Playing Card Scans
« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2013, 05:34:26 PM »
 

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Amazing collection Robert! Where did you get the white cardboard boxes with the inner dividers?
 

Re: A Plethera of Playing Card Scans
« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2013, 07:40:22 PM »
 

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That is a fabulous collection you have there. It's amazing to see the large variety of playing cards available to the world. Great job!
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Re: A Plethera of Playing Card Scans
« Reply #4 on: February 06, 2013, 09:20:56 PM »
 

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I'm amazed. So many custom decks. What a collection you got there!
 

Re: A Plethera of Playing Card Scans
« Reply #5 on: February 06, 2013, 10:10:40 PM »
 

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Amazing collection Robert! Where did you get the white cardboard boxes with the inner dividers?

Sports memorabilia stores carry those.  I have boxes designed to hold 5,000 baseball cards - they hold about 125 decks in boxes.  They come in smaller sizes as well.

Awesome display, Robert - lots of goodies, some of which I haven't seen before.
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Re: A Plethera of Playing Card Scans
« Reply #6 on: February 07, 2013, 12:47:46 AM »
 

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Looks awesome man! Keep it up!
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Re: A Plethera of Playing Card Scans
« Reply #7 on: February 07, 2013, 01:00:45 AM »
 

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Amazing collection Robert! Where did you get the white cardboard boxes with the inner dividers?

Made by BCW Supplies, those are made primarily for Sport cards collections (Baseball cards, Football cards, etc), and can be found, in various sizes, at sport card stores. Those stores used to be everywhere, back when Magic The Gathering cards, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle cards, Pokemon cards and such were so popular, but don't seem to be around as much nowadays.

The manufacturer has them for a great price, here:

http://www.bcwsupplies.com/products/other-display-cases/monster-storage-box-3200-ct.htm

Amazing collection Robert! Where did you get the white cardboard boxes with the inner dividers?

Sports memorabilia stores carry those.  I have boxes designed to hold 5,000 baseball cards - they hold about 125 decks in boxes.  They come in smaller sizes as well.

Awesome display, Robert - lots of goodies, some of which I haven't seen before.

Yes, the 5,000-card ones have five rows, and hold 120-125 decks.

The ones in my photos have four rows, hold 3,000 cards, or around 80-85 decks. I have 28 of them, all full of decks!

That is a fabulous collection you have there. It's amazing to see the large variety of playing cards available to the world. Great job!

Thanks, and yes, there are an amazing variety of decks out there!

I'm amazed. So many custom decks. What a collection you got there!

Thanks, Pacis! It took me long enough...

Looks awesome man! Keep it up!

Thanks, will do!

That is pretty cool.

+1 for all that work.

Thanks, Sway!

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Re: A Plethera of Playing Card Scans
« Reply #8 on: February 07, 2013, 12:06:12 PM »
 

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Don:

I know it is "better form" to multi-quote rather than to post a reply for each quote, but I see no easy way to do it on this forum. Some forums have a "Multi-quote" button as well as a "quote" button on each post. Clicking on a post's "multi-quote" button simply flags the post. You do this with each post to which you wish to reply except the last one, on which you click the "quote" butrton, and you are then presented with a Compose Reply page, in which all of the "flagged" posts (and the last one) are quoted.

The forum software here does not appear to have a MultiQuote feature, and I did not follow your suggestion in your last post.  I will play around with it and see if I can figger it out.

-RSL
 

Re: A Plethera of Playing Card Scans
« Reply #9 on: February 07, 2013, 12:09:12 PM »
 

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I'm amazed. So many custom decks. What a collection you got there!

Looks awesome man! Keep it up!

Okay, I see now. Not very intuitive, but I will try to remember it - thanks!
 

Re: A Plethera of Playing Card Scans
« Reply #10 on: February 07, 2013, 02:10:39 PM »
 

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I'm amazed. So many custom decks. What a collection you got there!

Looks awesome man! Keep it up!

Okay, I see now. Not very intuitive, but I will try to remember it - thanks!

Hey, we were all new once, right?  I'm just pleased that at my age I can still find things that I'm new at!  :))
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Re: A Plethera of Playing Card Scans
« Reply #11 on: February 08, 2013, 06:49:58 AM »
 

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Hey, we were all new once, right?  I'm just pleased that at my age I can still find things that I'm new at!  :))

I can relate, Don!

But, after my stroke in 2008, it's sometimes like the joke:

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A: Every day you meet new people.

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Re: A Plethera of Playing Card Scans
« Reply #12 on: February 08, 2013, 01:22:06 PM »
 

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Simply incredible collection!  Thanks for sharing.
 

Re: A Plethera of Playing Card Scans
« Reply #13 on: February 08, 2013, 11:25:44 PM »
 

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Simply incredible collection!

And that's less than 1/20th of it - but I don't have the other decks scanned.

Yet.

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Thanks for sharing.

You're quite welcome - thanks for posting on it!