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Comment by Dave Dubé on November 23, 2009 at 8:37am

That may be an issue with newer decks Bill, but any of the older ones - their 'copyrights' don't apply. Matter of fact, even the newer ones are not a problem. I am not creating a card or cards for sale, but rather it is my image of a product that is being put on paper for the company producing the product. Like Warhol using Campbell's Tomato Soup can...

Comment by Bill Gosling on November 23, 2009 at 7:16am

Paul, there are a variety of round decks, an early one being the Globe Card Co.'s Globe Playing Cards from the 1870's and 1880's. There are many modern ones, as well as some made in England, Spain and Japan. The older ones are very expensive, but the newer ones easy to find. What is fun is to look for the different colors used in the courts and the number of court heads. While yours has four, some have five and even six figures in the small circles.

Please send me an e-mail (wgosling@umich.edu) for some other information I can send off-site. Bill

Comment by Bill Gosling on November 23, 2009 at 7:07am

Dave, as you contemplate reproducing some of these images on various materials, remember that the decks of recent years, and perhaps back a far as 1923, are copyrighted. Any commercial use of the image would require copyright clearance from the producer. If European, the date goes back even further, I think it is still about 1874 in Britain. Just a thought.

Bill

Comment by Dave Dubé on November 22, 2009 at 9:18pm

Hey thanks! I'm thinking even contemporary paper would be nice for something different like this deck!

Comment by Paul Batchelor on November 22, 2009 at 9:13pm

Hey Dave these cards are sorta neat. The publisher is Chadwick-Miller #14303 (made in Japan). There not old with plastic coating, but fun to look at.

Comment by Dave Dubé on November 21, 2009 at 4:03am

Paul! It looks like I have to add Whitman Publishing to Bill's list. Thanks for the images.

Comment by Paul Batchelor on November 20, 2009 at 8:46pm

This is one deck of nine I bought for $12.00. I found the pack at a local antique shop I go to once and while. Just wanted to share

Comment by Paul Batchelor on November 19, 2009 at 7:31pm

Bill go to your "my page" on the right. You will see your name and a small box with inbox,alerts,settings ect... select settings. Then you can choose a picture from your computer and upload. go to bottom of that page and select save. Then select my page on the same screen youll see apperance select reset the location....then your done

Comment by Bill Gosling on November 19, 2009 at 1:51pm

Can someone tell me how to change the picture that the system supplied when I first signed on? Thanks.

Dave, my e-mail address is wgosling@umich.edu. If you'll send me a message, I'll supply a list of playing card manufacturers whose stationery you might keep an eye out for. Don't want to clug this site with a very long listing.

Bill

Comment by Dave Dubé on November 19, 2009 at 3:44am

Could you do that Bill? My 'thing' is putting my art work on old commercial paper. See my web site: oldpaperart.blogspot.com I saw a piece of USPCC paper a couple of months ago, as it was in a lot of Cincinnati paper on eBay. I would certainly start looking for billhead or letterhead from them as well as other companies if I knew what company names to be looking for. Perhaps some of the other playing card collectors already have 'go-with' paper, and in that case, I'd just like to make them aware of what I'm doing with the related old paper.

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