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Playing Card Chat ♠ ♥ ♣ ♦ => A Cellar of Fine Vintages => Topic started by: Mike Ratledge on June 09, 2014, 10:53:59 PM
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As I have noted before, I have sharp eyes. I saw a Tom Thumb deck on eBay the other day about two weeks ago and thought something just was really unusual. Very few pix, but what I could see was odd. When I got it I was astonished to find it is a deck of square plain pink backs from the 1865-1885 period because the AoS was changed in 1885 .The deck is in nearly pristine condition for its age. Pix attached:
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I just wish he created the pictures with something else in the frame to provide scale, like a quarter or a ruler...
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I just wish he created the pictures with something else in the frame to provide scale, like a quarter or a ruler...
It's 5 in the morning and I don't want to wake the wife, don't have any change, but here it is sitting on an old Grimaud standard poker deck. As I thought I said, ¼ normal size, or 1¼" × 1¾*, or 1,8 × 2,7 cm for the metric folks. I( think that's what I remember in cm)
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I just wish he created the pictures with something else in the frame to provide scale, like a quarter or a ruler...
It's 5 in the morning and I don't want to wake the wife, don't have any change, but here it is sitting on an old Grimaud standard poker deck. As I thought I said, ¼ normal size, or 1¼" × 1¾*, or 1,8 × 2,7 cm for the metric folks. I( think that's what I remember in cm)
Nice find - don't see my thumb very often.
Approx 2 1/2 cm per inch - so 1.25 inches = 3.1cm by 1.75 = 4.1- all approximate
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I'm starting to think this Galaxy S4 "smartphone" has some 'smarts' built into the "Which Side is Up?" logic that nothing else (or many things) don't understand. These pictures ALL display correctly and upright on the phone, my laptop and posted elsewhere. Pretty strange, and if you enlarge some of them the direction they are shown changes. That's weird!
I suppose I could download them and "fix" them, but it's clear enough upside-down as it would be right-side up (or sideways, for goodness sake).
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I'm starting to think this Galaxy S4 "smartphone" has some 'smarts' built into the "Which Side is Up?" logic that nothing else (or many things) don't understand. These pictures ALL display correctly and upright on the phone, my laptop and posted elsewhere. Pretty strange, and if you enlarge some of them the direction they are shown changes. That's weird!
I suppose I could download them and "fix" them, but it's clear enough upside-down as it would be right-side up (or sideways, for goodness sake).
LOL - I didn't even notice they weren't rightside up!