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Playing Card Chat ♠ ♥ ♣ ♦ => A Cellar of Fine Vintages => Topic started by: Cryptocard27 on September 10, 2014, 11:27:22 AM
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I found recently several antique price lists with the pictures below. Could you help me to complete that and post here other antique lists please ? For example, I am very interested to see : Lawrence & Cohen, John J Levy, Perfection PCC, National Card Co (with the Owls deck if possible), or other of the same factories already pictured.
Thank you in advance.
Crypto
1870 - Samuel Hart, Isaac Levy Price List
1879 - Victor E. Mauger Price List
1890 - Caterson & Brotz Price List
1890 - The Russell & Morgan Printing Co. Price List
1894 - The United States Printing Company Price List
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Two other Price Lists :
1879 - Paper Fabrique Company Price List
1897 - American Playing Card Co Price List
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Here are a few of the ones we have - these are a great source of information as well as attractive pieces of ephemera to have. USPC 09 a and b are front and back respectively. Same with USPC 59 a and b. USPC 23 is the front of a foldout price list.
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I went all the way to the bottom list in the first post and gave it a real close-up look. I found it interesting how the different card sizes were referenced.
It's clear that the standard size was what we might know also as either standard or poker size, 2.5 x 3.5".
What we know as narrow or bridge size they called "French size", with two different measurements listed. The more common was what we know today, 2.25 x 3.5", but one brand ("Juniors", also known as "Bicycle Juniors") was listed a little shorter at 2.25 x 3.25". Then there was the "Skat" deck in "German size", 2.25 x 3.75", a size that's uncommon in the US and much of the rest of the world but is probably found easily through much of Europe today.
I also found a notation on the "Squared Faro" deck rather interesting: "Fit any dealing box. Margin enough to trim many times." I'm picturing a less-than-scrupulous faro dealer trimming his cards using a variety of methods to create stripped-edge decks! It's almost like advertising "Perfectly suited to being rigged against the player!"
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Whoa this is good stuff. Those American No. 165 face designs are begging to be resurrected in a limited reissue. And that picture list that Tom posted is awesome. It refers to rider backs being available in 4 colors - weren't those only available for a couple of years in the 1920s? Would so love to have an original brown RB deck...... ;D
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Whoa this is good stuff. Those American No. 165 face designs are begging to be resurrected in a limited reissue. And that picture list that Tom posted is awesome. It refers to rider backs being available in 4 colors - weren't those only available for a couple of years in the 1920s? Would so love to have an original brown RB deck...... ;D
I hear those faces weren't terribly popular - the indices being all over the edge of each card made them hard to hide in a poker hand!
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I still like the idea of a reissue, just for the novelty of it. They wouldn't be so much functional for the poker table, but what a cool deck to add to your collection, since there's nothing out there like them.
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Here are a few of the ones we have - these are a great source of information as well as attractive pieces of ephemera to have. USPC 09 a and b are front and back respectively. Same with USPC 59 a and b. USPC 23 is the front of a foldout price list.
Thank you for this invaluable contribution!! These pieces of ephemera are really beautiful and interesting..
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Hi everyone!
Today, I put other documents and price lists that you may also like :
1873 - John J. Levy, Lawrence & Cohen and Samuel Hart price lists
1879 - Mauger & Dougherty Playing Cards
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1879 - Victor E. Mauger - Two different price list
1883 - Andrew Dougherty Two different price lists
1890 - National Playing Card Co. price list
1891 - NY Consolidated Card Co. price list (from the Hochman Encyclopedia)
Question for 52PlusJoker : Can you give us with a scan, the rest of the price list of Lewis I. Cohen, pictured page 6 on the Hochman supplement please ?
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Wow - very cool. Some of those decks appear to be rather expensive - for the lists with actual prices, is that by the dozen or by some other amount?
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Wow - very cool. Some of those decks appear to be rather expensive - for the lists with actual prices, is that by the dozen or by some other amount?
Indeed, some of the decks seemed rather expensive but I think that some of the prices have to correspond to the dozen or more.
Can you give me the complete word which corresponds to the abbreviation "gross." at the top of the prices please ? I don't understand in english the exact sense of the expression "per gross."
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Wow - very cool. Some of those decks appear to be rather expensive - for the lists with actual prices, is that by the dozen or by some other amount?
Indeed, some of the decks seemed rather expensive but I think that some of the prices have to correspond to the dozen or more.
Can you give me the complete word which corresponds to the abbreviation "gross." at the top of the prices please ? I don't understand in english the exact sense of the expression "per gross."
"Gross" means 144, 12 dozen.
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Wow - very cool. Some of those decks appear to be rather expensive - for the lists with actual prices, is that by the dozen or by some other amount?
Indeed, some of the decks seemed rather expensive but I think that some of the prices have to correspond to the dozen or more.
Can you give me the complete word which corresponds to the abbreviation "gross." at the top of the prices please ? I don't understand in english the exact sense of the expression "per gross."
"Gross" means 144, 12 dozen.
Thank you very much CardConjurer!! I understand better why some of the prices are expensive..
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Other antique price lists recently found:
1878 - Victor Eugene Mauger
1878 - Continental Card Company
1878 - Seconds in Playing Cards
1890s - The United States Printing Company
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Here are pages 1-5 from a 1920s USPCC price list I found at Ohio Memory Collection. More pages follow.
http://www.ohiomemory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p267401coll36/id/23030
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Pages 6-10
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Last page of price list. Book has more information, but Ohio Memory Collection only has a portion of the book. Anyone have a whole one they can post?
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1893 USPC and National Price List from Marshall Field
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January 1, 1910 Wholesale Price List for American Playing Card Co.
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1892 United States Printing Co from The Pharmaceutical Era Vol 7
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Not quite a price list, but a 1914 Wyeth Hardware catalog page with a great selection of American Bank Note decks