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Honeybee wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 6:58 pm (who also bought out our biggest beer co. CUB - some of you would have heard of Fosters beer)

@seasonsplayingcards wrote:"DID YOU KNOW... the original series (NPCCD 2018) was going to be red and GREEN vs the released red and blue? The anaglyph effect works on canceling out complimentary light waves. Green cancelled out the opposite red colored light wave better than blue did. But the color palette was feeling a bit too "Christmas-y" so green was never released."

kevork wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2024 9:47 pm Fact & Fancy by Dick Martin for Chicago Playing Card Collectors' 10 year anniversary, 1961.

hsbc wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2024 9:58 pm Wow, a deck I didn't even know existed!

kevork wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2024 9:47 pm Fact & Fancy by Dick Martin for Chicago Playing Card Collectors' 10 year anniversary, 1961.

This Dick Martin? He was from Chicago...

The posters were commissioned by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to be used in South America to persuade those countries to join the Allied war effort. However, soon after Bernal began his work, some six South American countries declared their support for the Allied forces, and the need for the posters was diminished; moreover, at or about the same time, peace was declared, and so the entire project became unnecessary. However, Bernal had been paid and dutifully saw the project through to completion, preparing the posters he had been paid to prepare.

The Bernal posters were virtually unknown until a set surfaced at a playing card auction that Schroeder attended some 50 years later. I am not entirely certain it was intended that the posters would also be printed as a deck of playing cards, although that certainly appears to be the case. The card-by-card explanatory book that accompanies the cards contains a comment on each illustration by Bernal, followed by a further comment by Schroeder and taken collectively they are at least strongly suggestive that the number of posters created was chosen with an eye toward a deck of playing cards. Certainly the number is highly convenient as Schroeder embarks on his part of the project, and he explains the presence of 3 Jokers by noting that the second and third Jokers were created because Bernal was not completely satisfied with the first one he created. In any event, there were 56 posters, and 52 are also now suited cards, 3 are Jokers, and one serves as a unique design for the backs. The name of the deck and accompanying book were coined by Schroeder, and are based upon a Spike Jones song of the same name that appeared in a Disney animated short, ultimately also given the same name.

The cards trace a history of WWII and its principal actors, beginning with the Ace of Diamonds (Hitler as young man), proceeding chronologically through the Diamond suit, and then through the remaining suits – Ace through King in the Clubs, Hearts and Spades, in that order. The King of Spades shows Hirohito crawling on his hands and knees away from the rubble of Hiroshima after the first Atomic bomb.

kevork wrote: ↑Sun Jun 02, 2024 8:16 pm Another Dick Martin deck, this time "Mythological Zoo" released in 1971 for Chicago Playing Card Collectors (CPCC). Joop has a wonderful write-up of this deck found here: http://www.dxpo-playingcards.com/xpo/art/dickm-02.htm

I'll be lucky if I can find the color version some day to add to my collection.

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In 1982, while imprisoned in Ortachal prison, the great director experienced firsthand the Soviet regime's attitude toward dissenters. It goes without saying, he couldn''t dream of any artistic endeavors, for even paper was under a ban. However, Parajanov found a solution, a creative one! He literally "created" a few decks of playing cards using matchboxes and breadcrumbs.

Presently one of these decks is exhibited at the Bidspirit auction. Another popular one is presented in the Parajanov Museum in Yerevan. There is no doubt that many admirers of the great director would love to have at least a copy of this rare item. That's why, for the 30th anniversary of the Parajanov Museum, SHARM Holding came up with a limited edition of the Master's cards. They are made according to sketches of the original cards, which are kept in the museum.

Randy Isbell, Card Culture #96, Jan. 2023 wrote:2010 convention was held in New Orleans, LA. 200 club decks were made available for the convention attendees. This deck was a reproduction of the original 1900 New Orleans and Gulf Souvenir Playing Cards by USPCC (Hochman: S35).