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Bill Gosling

Playing Card Collectors 3 Replies

Started by Bill Gosling. Last reply by Cliff Aliperti Mar 27.

Rob Stephen

bringing your special cards to poker night...

Started by Rob Stephen Jun. 13, 2008.

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Paul Batchelor Comment by Paul Batchelor 1 day ago
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
Bill Gosling Comment by Bill Gosling 1 day ago
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
Dave Dubé Comment by Dave Dubé 1 day ago
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.
Bill Gosling Comment by Bill Gosling on November 18, 2009 at 7:35pm
Dave, I am not sure who made this deck as there is no definite mention in the work I referenced. Based on the box remnant, it is one of several manufacturers active at that time. You ask specifically who else made these cards, and I want to be clear I was just making a guess with USPCC. If you would like information on other card manufacturers active at the time, I will dig out a rference for you.

Bill
Dave Dubé Comment by Dave Dubé on November 18, 2009 at 8:59am
Bill,

Could you possibly tell me who else besides the United States Playing Card Company made these decks?
Paul Batchelor Comment by Paul Batchelor on November 18, 2009 at 7:50am
Thankyou Bill, I will be looking for those refference books. I have never really collected playing cards before. Thats the beauty of ephemera I have about twenty different types of Items I collect. Adding more never hurts, Thankyou for your comments
Bill Gosling Comment by Bill Gosling on November 18, 2009 at 6:58am
The deck you found is one of a series described in the "Hochman Encyclopedia of American Playing Cards". [More on that in a moment] It is one of ten beauiful card backs for Edison Mazda designed by Maxfield Parrish. "There are different jokers and Aces in this series and each deck also comes with an extra descriptive or 'picture' card. The many Parrish collectors actively collect these decks, seeking even a single card of each back." They were produced between 1919 and 1931. Encyc. p. 202.

You did extremely well to find even an incomplete Parrish deck at this price. They were issued for General Electric -Edison, and the joker shows an early electric light bulb. If the second part of the box were present, and I think it did have an outer sleeve, it would likely name the manufacturer. The most common one would have been the United States Playing Card Company in Cincinnati, Ohio, at that time, though it could have been one of several others as well.

As to the Encyclopedia, it lists American cards from earliest productions up to the mid-20th century. The paperback edition is $45.00, less expensive than the $75.00 hard cover and also has a $15.00 price guide sold separately. The full citation is:

Dawson, Tom and Judy. The Hockman Encyclopedia of American Playing Cards. Stamford, CT, U.S. Games Systems,Inc., 2000. Price guide, same year and publisher.

A very good deck in the price guide lists for about $100.00.

I'll return late with more background information on cards. I currently have abobut 250 books in my reference library on the history of plaing cards, and some 3800 decks.

Bill
Dave Dubé Comment by Dave Dubé on November 16, 2009 at 8:56am
These are FABULOUS! Looks to be an advertising deck as well. Can you contact me via my email addy, please. I'd like to get a high-res scan of the Parrish image on the card, since it incorporates the Edison advertising.
email: ddcachets@gmail.com

I put my art on old paper, btw. I now have something more to look for. I wonder who made the cards for Edison.
Paul Batchelor Comment by Paul Batchelor on November 16, 2009 at 8:25am


here ya go dave
Dave Dubé Comment by Dave Dubé on November 16, 2009 at 6:59am
Could you post an image of one of them?
 

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