I agree, just don't let me catch you smoking cards, kids! jk...johanes wrote:@mike ratledge
I thing spending money on playing card is a good thing. It's keeping me away from smoking or using drugs.
I didn't know the history you told me, i'm only 20 years old. and i think it's a really long story to tell.
But i think i would like to know the full story behind that one you told me.
Hobbies is an addiction, all the extra money i have is gone when someone sell good things at ebay.Mike Ratledge wrote:I agree, just don't let me catch you smoking cards, kids! jk...johanes wrote:@mike ratledge
I thing spending money on playing card is a good thing. It's keeping me away from smoking or using drugs.
I didn't know the history you told me, i'm only 20 years old. and i think it's a really long story to tell.
But i think i would like to know the full story behind that one you told me.
Anyway, collecting the 52 pieces of pretty cardboard is an addiction in my way of thinking. You just can't do without.
Not sure I followed about the story - you mean Reynolds family, maybe? Interesting group, for sure. Maybe not, I'm not certain. ?? I pretty much told all I remember, it was when I was very young, up until about the age of 9. Beyond that I grew up in Charleston, it's where my father is from - post 1950 when he moved down from what is the Winston-Salem area to open the Allstate office in the new Sears building. It's long gone at this point, but Allstate is still going strong. Sears own K-Mart these days, and that can't be a good thing, you'd think.
Wow, you are way beyond me. I think I have 800 - 900 decks now. The number doesn't change much anymore since I have been selling some and buying less.johanes wrote:the last time i count is around 1000 decks. it's keep coming fast until i stop buying new decks and start vintage collection, so may be it's 1300 decks now..
Yes, I have a wax paper sealed Alf Cooke deck that I can't bring myself to open yet, and I usually open all my decks. It's just so perfect sealed like that. I got it from Jase (Jock1971) who has many great British decks.To be honest i don't know, but from the tax stamp it's around 1940 - 1965. To get the exact year we need to see the code below the ace of spade, but to see it without opening the deck is impossible. it's better to keep it into a mystery i think.
Well, many new collectors eventually learn where those designs come from, partly because they see the reprints. I usually don't like those "reprints" because they stick modern Bicycle faces on them and they only look like the real ones on the backs.I think playing card company need to stop all this reprinting vintage design playing card, like bicycle racer back, bicycle new fan back, bicycle oak leaf, or steamboat, studs, i think that's already to much reprint.
it's making new collector stupid, they don't know the real thing yet they said they own the original "new fan back" "racer back" "steamboat".
that's erasing the history of the original company that make them.
I don't really collect vintage decks, but you have some interesting ones, and they're portrayed so nicely in those pictures. The only ones I recognize are the tall stacks. Also, thanks for the tip on keeping decks in good condition. 
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