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Comment by Mike Ferguson on October 28, 2009 at 12:43pm

takes a while to load...guess they're busy

Comment by Mike Ferguson on October 28, 2009 at 12:42pm

http://www.ellusionist.com/arcane-deck-playing-cards.html

Comment by Dave Dubé on October 27, 2009 at 1:23pm

Mike,

The link is broken.

Comment by Mike Ferguson on October 27, 2009 at 12:10pm

I am not associated with this company in any way, but I sure like this new deck, being released today http://www.ellusionist.com/arcane

Comment by AntiquesRGreat on August 9, 2009 at 5:13pm

As soon as I'm done with listing the postcards I'll tackle my collection of playing cards.

Comment by Dave Dubé on June 23, 2009 at 3:52pm

I'm posting a link to my contribution to Playing Cards:::

http://oldpaperart.blogspot.com/2009/05/king-queen-joined-as-one.html

I bisected a pair of antique cards (King &Queen of Hearts) for the art work, and then bisected and rearranged the stamps (top pair) and included the normal pair below. Do any of you have face examples of the decks you collect? Do any of you collect short decks?

Comment by Susan Mac Gregor on March 16, 2009 at 12:05pm

I found some old cards a deck can any of you identify?

Comment by Cliff Aliperti on December 9, 2008 at 7:00am

Hi all,

I deal mainly in movie cards and collectibles, but one of my favorite sets to the point of obsession is the 1916 MJ Moriarty Playing Card set. As I'm only, what would you call it, an auxiliary collector, I'd like to edit/include any relevant terminology to collectors of playing cards so my page is useful for them as well as my regular movie collectibles visitors. Right now I know it's good for movie collectors, does it stand the test for playing card collectors?

Basically, it's one of my favorite pages on my site and it would make me feel terrible if I found out I was committing some faux pas in the eyes of another field of collecting!

Here's the page, so far I've found 113 different poses featuring 98 different early film stars throughout various decks: 1916 MJ Moriarty Photo ID Guide

And here are images of a couple to at least whet your appetite:

(Notice those are both the 9 of Clubs from different decks)

Thanks for any help and criticism, Cliff

Comment by Gejus van Diggele on May 27, 2008 at 1:13pm

In New England and some other American areas playing cards have been used for social ball invitations. See examples. If you own or know about these playing card invitations, please contact me and help me with my research project. And if you like to know more about secondary use of playing cards, you are most welcome: gejusvd@xs4all.nl. Thanks,
Gejus van Diggele

Comment by steve bowling on May 21, 2008 at 3:14pm

Always looking for catalogs, ads, information, history on US playing card makers: 1800 - 1925.