#CLOSED - Deck is no longer available... Thank you for your interest...
I am selling c. 1875 Andrew Dougherty Triplicates Playing Cards with Parrot Backs... This extraordinarily rare deck is being offered for $200 insured & shipped anywhere in the U.S... Other reasonable offers will be considered... I was going to post on eBay, but figured I'd let the playing card community have the first opportunity of owning this Historic Deck...
A. Dougherty manufactured some of the earliest examples of double-ended playing cards, replete with rounded corners – an innovation he never failed to advertise. The earliest examples, however, were still published without corner side indices. But it was his rivalry with the New York Consolidated Card Company which would usher in this new innovation so that by the mid 1870’s corner side indices were coming into standard production.
The earliest examples being produced by Dougherty were called “Triplicate Cards” (1875). These were playing cards with “miniatures” in diametrically opposed corners. This allowed players to hold their cards in a tight fan and still be able to identify what they had. At the same time, the New York Consolidated Card Company was manufacturing a similar innovation which they called “Squeezers”. A tacit understanding of the sales territory between the two rivals is commemorated in a card back of 1877, showing two bulldogs (most of you are familiar with this deck) straining at their leashes – one collar says “Squeezer” and the other “Trip” which stood for Triplicates (The type of deck for sale here).
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