Today, I thought I would try to provide a little more detail about one of the more recent listings in the download version of the Hochman Encyclopedia. This is the latest listing for a turn of the last century Yale University deck. My photo repeats the images of the back design and the card that is believed to be the joker but also adds a picture of the Ace of Spades which shows that this deck is just an example of AD15 with a special back design. This deck has gold edges and came in a rather ordinary tuck box which just has the card back image as it's front and back panels. The top and bottom panels simply state "Yale" and the two side panels state "Yale Co-operative Corporation". Unfortunately, the top is missing but the remnant of the tax stamp reads "190_", thus, dating it to the first decade of the 20th century in accordance with the later 1903 date shown on the "joker". It remains to be seen if Dougherty used their Indicator brand for any of the other Ivy League schools.
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