KEM Dance cards - 1041

[Chuqii]

Scooped these up on Ebay.  Excellent condition.  The case was a bonus.  Just need the Pinochle back for the period set.

[52plusjoker]

nice scoop. how many do you have altogether?

[Don Boyer]

Cool find.  I've never seen a Kem box like that.

[Chuqii]

I have decks with ten different backs from 1936-1943 - Fawn, Earth radio waves?, Dance, Torches?, Regency, Club, Carnations, Clipper Ship, Cameo and Gamecock.   Still looking for La Paloma, Seascape, Adventure, the blue Earth radio waves?, and a few others.

[Don Boyer]

I think I speak for everyone here when I say we'd love to see images of those backs!

[Chuqii]

And here they are.  I threw in a Duchess back, even though mine is from 1948, since it is listed in the ad.

In order, Clipper Ship, Duchess, Torches? (streamline), Fawn, Gamecock, Earth radio waves?, and a promo card

Dance, Carnation, Club, Cameo and Regency shown in in first post.

[Don Boyer]

And here they are.  I threw in a Duchess back, even though mine is from 1948, since it is listed in the ad.

In order, Clipper Ship, Duchess, Torches? (streamline), Fawn, Gamecock, Earth radio waves?, and a promo card

Dance, Carnation, Club, Cameo and Regency shown in in first post.

The one you're calling "Earth radio waves"...  Those are more like clouds of "cosmic gas" - it was a depiction of Earth seen from space in a style that's common to science fiction of the era.  Complete with goofy-looking grid lines for longitude and latitude!

[52plusjoker]

Neat group of decks. So many Kem cards were rather mundane pattern backs.