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Playing Card Chat ♠ ♥ ♣ ♦ => A Cellar of Fine Vintages => Topic started by: BooDog on November 11, 2018, 06:30:19 PM

Title: Help with a flea market find
Post by: BooDog on November 11, 2018, 06:30:19 PM

I'm trying to figure out the year they were made, and who made them. I think the Company started up in 1885.
A 2 pc box with no writing on it. 52 cards, no joker.

Title: Re: Help with a flea market find
Post by: tobyedwards on November 12, 2018, 12:30:04 AM

That is a wonderful early advertising deck you found at that flea market. Thanks for sharing it with us on this site.
Based upon the design of the Ace of Spades and the style of the court cards, it appears to have been made by the American Playing Card Co. of New York but the Hochman Encyclopedia suggests that this deck may date to c.1875 which is ten years earlier than your estimate. If your deck was handled in a manner similar to that of the Splendid Plug Tobacco advertising deck which they made for P. Lorillard & Co. then the joker would have been the same as the one shown under the reference number L10 in chapter four of part one in the encyclopedia.

Title: Re: Help with a flea market find
Post by: BooDog on November 15, 2018, 06:24:53 PM

Thanks for the info.

Title: Re: Help with a flea market find
Post by: lovenugget2003 on January 17, 2019, 07:35:30 AM

Is there lot of vintage deck in flea market?

I really want to look around :-[