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Re: England

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2015 9:29 am
by Jock1971
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Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2015 9:53 am
by Jock1971
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Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2015 8:13 am
by Jock1971
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Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2015 8:42 am
by Jock1971
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Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2015 8:47 am
by Jock1971
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Re: England

Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2015 8:50 am
by volantangel
The 2006 installation deck is an absolutely stunning deck of cards, if only the back design matched the faces stylistically. That's the weakest part of this deck, faces are beautiful !

Re: England

Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2015 9:12 am
by Jock1971
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Re: England

Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2015 12:03 pm
by dazzleguts
Same with the scenic aces deck I posted to the Netherlands thread. Sometimes the faces are so beautiful, and/or interesting, that the back can be tolerated. Though I hope to find a Scenic Aces with a better back.

I was going to ask why it was called an Installation deck, but then realized it featured an Observatory. :ugthink:

I will post a reproduction 1700s deck to the Germany thread later today that I think is related to this one.

Re: England

Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2015 12:52 pm
by ecNate
That Time & Space deck is awesome!

Re: England

Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2015 1:26 pm
by Jock1971
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Re: England

Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2015 2:06 am
by Jock1971
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Re: England

Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2015 2:27 am
by Jock1971
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Re: England

Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2015 2:42 am
by volantangel
Jase are the back of these decks blank ?

Re: England

Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2015 2:58 am
by Jock1971
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Re: England

Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2015 3:03 am
by Jock1971
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Re: England

Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2015 7:53 pm
by dazzleguts
It's great how the characters in the South Sea Bubble cards are actually holding their word balloons in their hands. I wonder if that's the first use of word balloons. I know it's the first stock market crash.

Is the "Horrid Popish Plot" the same as the "Meal Tub Plot"? I have a Meal Tub facsimile but it's made by H. & V. Wayland and doesn't have the same quality as Harry Margery.

Thanks for putting these up Jase :) .

Re: England

Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2015 10:12 am
by Jock1971
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Re: England

Posted: Sat May 02, 2015 7:04 am
by Jock1971
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Re: England

Posted: Sat May 02, 2015 10:09 am
by Slavich
Jock1971 wrote:The Cartoonist Pack, Made by Carta Mundi dated 1980.
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Thanks for looking at my cards :D -jase-
I love this deck. Bought one a couple of weeks ago :)

Thanks for posting the pics.

Re: England

Posted: Fri May 15, 2015 8:54 am
by Jock1971
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Re: England

Posted: Fri May 15, 2015 9:07 am
by Jock1971
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Re: England

Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2015 11:51 pm
by dazzleguts
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A Wills Scheme Bridge Deck
made by Mardon, Son & Hall
c. 1933

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The beginnings of Mardon, Son & hall go back to 1823 with a John Price who started an engraving business. It wasn't until 1846 that a Mardon joined the firm, so 1846 is often the date given for the origin of the company.

When Mardon moved into making cardboard boxes in the late 1800s they were the only company in Bristol making that product and trade was brisk. When W. D. and H. O Wills started making cigarettes in the 1880s they commissioned Mardon to make the cigarette packets. As the cigarette demand grew so did the demand for Mardon's boxes.

Larger cigarette packs required stiffeners, small plain cards the size of the packs, to protect the cigarettes from being crushed. Mardon was asked by Wills to print ads on the stiffeners. The ads were eventually replaced by collectable "educational" images.


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Wills and Mardon were already cooperating on the new technology needed to meet the high demands for cigarette packets when an American campaign to enter the British tobacco industry was launched in October of 1901. British tobacco companies joined forces and formed the Imperial Tobacco Group to successfully protect their interests. Mardon was the only firm from outside of the tobacco industry to join the Imperial. It appears the individual companies retained separate names and operations within their alliance as the Imperial. See the above detail from the wrapper of this deck.

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In the early 1930s WD & HO Wills came up with a special promotion - the Wills Scheme. Two miniature playing cards were inserted into each cigarette pack. They were one quarter the size of a standard narrow playing card, but when a full set was collected they could be traded in for regular patience or bridge sized decks as singles, doubles or bezique sets.
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Originally the cards were only produced by De La Rue (with the Goodall name and faces) and Waddingtons, but the promotion was so successful that, from 1932 to 1934, Mardon also made playing cards to help meet the demand. Mardon also made advertising decks for various Imperial products such as Players Navy Cut.

The Wills Scheme was so big that they saturated the playing card market and even now decks can be found in good condition, often still sealed, as this one was when I first received it.
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Even though Mardon was new to playing cards their long experience as printers shows and this deck is beautifully printed. The backs glow with colour and are highlighted with touches of gold. The card edges are brightly gilt. The cards have a very fine-meshed linen surface, are very flexible, and seem a little thin. The deck came with one joker and a blank card.
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Jase (Jock1971) has already posted a Mardon earlier in this thread but I noticed this deck was printed slightly differently. The yellow was printed overtop of the darker colours, rather than underneath, even though as the lightest colour yellow is usually printed first. Since Mardon was an experienced printer I suggest that this was done deliberately to tone down the areas of black or blue that the yellow overlaps, creating another colour as part of the design.[/color]
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Many thanks to Jase for his help with this posting. :)

Re: England

Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2015 4:24 pm
by Jock1971
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by Jock1971
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by Jock1971
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Re: England

Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2017 3:06 pm
by Jock1971
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