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Title: What is in a Golden Nugget box ?
Post by: fredv on October 18, 2013, 12:25:05 PM: Hello,

i have currently fallen in love with all the good old vintage casino playing cards.
And especially the Golden Nugget because of their quite frequent availability and number of colors. Easier to make a small collection than with the Dunes :)

I had one question about the sealed boxes :

what is in a sealed box of Golden Nugget ? 52 cards + 2 jokers + other cards ?
is it normal to have a black one 2nd Fremont with a red Bee Card in it ?

And is there a book or article or web article in which they are described with all the different versions ? i know several web articles but they lack details

Thanks
Fred.
Title: Re: What is in a Golden Nugget box ?
Post by: Don Boyer on October 18, 2013, 01:37:18 PM: Welcome to the boards, Fredv.

Have you tried a search for Golden Nuggets from the home page?
http://aethercards.com/discourse/index.php?action=search2

By looking at those results and following a few links, I found this article online:
http://www.mediafire.com/view/c0fl1tbytjj1bkg/Modern+Manipulator+June+Issue.pdf

The search feature is your friend... :)) Dig deeper, here and on Google, and you'll probably find some more info if this doesn't cover what you need.
Title: Re: What is in a Golden Nugget box ?
Post by: fredv on October 18, 2013, 01:57:34 PM: Thanks for your tips Don

I had already found many small articles including the digital version of this one (in the blog https://sites.google.com/site/cardconjurer/playingcards/vintagecasinoplayingcards/goldennugget )
but there are still many questions to answer : the author "believes" many things but he has not all answers.

About the colors, the content of boxes, the dates of production, the fact that only the first ones are with the specific coating used for Jerry's Nugget .. well many things we could describe about the Golden Nugget legend :)

Maybe it would be a work to do : ask for Golden Nugget owners to give the production dates and the colors of their deck to identify what has been produced .. maybe i could do it :)
Title: Re: What is in a Golden Nugget box ?
Post by: Don Boyer on October 18, 2013, 02:25:15 PM: Quote from: fredv on October 18, 2013, 01:57:34 PM
Thanks for your tips Don

I had already found many small articles including the digital version of this one (in the blog https://sites.google.com/site/cardconjurer/playingcards/vintagecasinoplayingcards/goldennugget )
but there are still many questions to answer : the author "believes" many things but he has not all answers.

About the colors, the content of boxes, the dates of production, the fact that only the first ones are with the specific coating used for Jerry's Nugget .. well many things we could describe about the Golden Nugget legend :)

Maybe it would be a work to do : ask for Golden Nugget owners to give the production dates and the colors of their deck to identify what has been produced .. maybe i could do it :)

You could give it a shot, but only the minority of the people here are vintage collectors, and many of those wouldn't open a sealed deck. Maybe you'd want to check out 52 Plus Joker, a vintage card collector society. You're much likelier to find the information you need.
Title: Re: What is in a Golden Nugget box ?
Post by: fredv on October 18, 2013, 02:27:52 PM: Oh ok thanks for the idea

I had read very interesting articles from you and some others in this forum and thought there were many vintage card collectors too but it's still hard to find :)

Thanks
Title: Re: What is in a Golden Nugget box ?
Post by: Don Boyer on October 18, 2013, 02:28:47 PM: Quote from: fredv on October 18, 2013, 02:27:52 PM
Oh ok thanks for the idea

I had read very interesting articles from you and some others in this forum and thought there were many vintage card collectors too but it's still hard to find :)

Thanks

Don't get me wrong, we have vintage collectors here - but there's far more people collecting current custom decks.
Title: Re: What is in a Golden Nugget box ?
Post by: yoel on December 25, 2013, 05:07:53 PM: Yes in new decks of Golden Nuggets there are 52+2 Jokers and an additional Red Diamond Back Bee advertisement cards. The dozen or so decks I've opened all had the same setup.
Title: Re: What is in a Golden Nugget box ?
Post by: ally_tac on December 26, 2013, 02:24:30 AM: I saw one tax stamp red deck on ebay had an additioinal bee No.32 back ad cards...
Title: Re: What is in a Golden Nugget box ?
Post by: fredv on December 26, 2013, 06:30:40 AM: Hello,

thanks for your replies. Yes my question was sent at a time when i was very surprised to see a Bee card in a Golden Nugget box.
But now i know more about about what is in such boxes including sometimes in old deck a cut card with stars.

We are working hard with Lee Asher to make a complete documentation about Golden Nugget.
We always want more people to find more surprises about these cards, if you want to take part of the survey, tell me.

Thanks again for your reply.