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My 2 Ogma Decks came today!

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My Elan Verve Blue decks came in today along with my limited ARRCO decks. Dealingdeuces notice the small nick on the gold brick top right hehehe

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I got my Blue Verve Decks!
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new deck I picked up. it said clear so I had to get them.

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Well used, but a very reasonable trade from a UC member. Nice to have some to play with.
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Got my Watcher deck from Misdirection's Mystery. Turns out the guy that sold me the Moth deck is part of the Misdirection team. He tells me there is a chance that they will release a white Moth deck in the near future

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badpete69 wrote:Got my Watcher deck from Misdirection's Mystery. Turns out the guy that sold me the Moth deck is part of the Misdirection team. He tells me there is a chance that they will release a white Moth deck in the near future
There's more than a chance.. it's happening.
There is a thread for it that hasn't been transfered over yet at UC.net

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Encarded wrote:Well used, but a very reasonable trade from a UC member. Nice to have some to play with.
Lucky you, if anyone want to do a similar trade with me, go PM :)
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Got a new deck in the mail today - a gift from my good friend Barbara "Kitty" Mervine.

The deck is the recent Bicycle "Coffin Fodder" deck.

I had already purchased one via Brook Michael's Poker World (http://www.bmpokerworld.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;), but this gift was still quite nice to receive, as it came with a bonus...

Barbara is also friends with the deck's artist, Noah Whippie (he illustrated two books she has written), and, at my request, she had Mr. Whippie autograph the deck's Ace of Spades for me (whenever I purchase a deck through the deck's artist and/or designer, I ask them to autograph the deck's Ace of Spades).

I scanned smallish images of a few cards from the deck (including the Spade Ace), in preparation for including it on the revived version of my playing-card-collector web site, and thought I would upload them here to UC as part of this thread.

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I got my Madison Players decks today!
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That Verve deck above looks very nice, did not get that one, as for the others, I have a few but for the most part you guys are putting me to shame.
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Yesterday, my latest order from Brooke Michael's Poker World (http://www.bmpokerworld.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;) arrived!

I haven't even broken the seals yet, so all I can post are scans of the boxes:

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Got my first order from BM pokerworld today (great experience by the way!)

So...offically have 5 decks now, can't wait for quicksilver and army men to come in
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Yes, my customer experience over the past year and a half or so with BMPokerworld (http://www.bmpokerworld.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;), buying twenty or more decks, has been consistently great. The decks have each arrived promptly and well packaged, and Mike F. there in sales (who posts here as user bmpokerworld), has been very helpful via email answering all of my questions. I would highly recommend them to anyone looking to purchase modern decks, particularly those from USPCC.

To your new decks:

I was really looking forward to the Bicycle Negro Leagues Baseball Museum deck - it seemed like an idea with great potential.

I was a little disappointed in the actual deck, but it was still a nice addition to my collection.

I know nothing about the two Aladdin decks.
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Wow everyone has great decks adding to their collection . I'll post some photos after my exams !
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The new edition of the Fulton's casino decks.

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Shot from the side along with my (not for sale) jerry's nugget
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@PlayingCardsz, How did you get them already?
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I have an old Jerry's Nugget deck in my collection. I think it has the blue back, but I am not sure.

It was a gift from a magician/cardist friend who had found a box of ten of them in an antique store, nd bought all ten sealed decks for $20!
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My Pr1me sketch decks came in today...Also got my magic castle decks ( yes I do buy almost everything)

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Nice. Pete!

I used to live in Los Angeles Countty and was fortunate enough to be invited to The Magic Castle on four occasions.

I seem to recall their deck being a standard deck (face-wise, anyway).

Being a collector of decks with custom courts, I found this to be a disappointment, hoping they had published a deck where perhaps the courts were portrayed by various magicians and their assistants.

Of course, it makes perfect sense that their deck would be standard (other than the back), because magicians generally prefer to use a deck which at least appears to be a standard deck. (when they use a volunteer from the audience in performing an illusion with cards, they often ask the volunteer to examine the deck, and then ask them something like "It is just a regular deck of playing cards, isn't it? Nothing unusual about it?"

Because, if an audience member notices ANYTHING unusual-looking abiout the deck, they tend to assume that it is a "trick deck", made specifically for performing "card tricks".

And, while there certainly ARE "trick decks" (such as Svengali decks, "invisible" decks, shaved decks, marked decks and more), most of them are made from standard decks (Bicycles, Bees, etc) to look as "normal" to the audience as possible (even though they may be gaffed twelve ways from Sunday).

So, while decks with custom courts are highly desirable to those who collect them, they are NOT what a magician generally would want to use in a performance, so it made perfect sense that The Castle's own deck would be as vanilla as possible, with only the custom back making it a good souvenir of an evening spent there.

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Sharpie posted some pics on the old UC a while ago, here they are :
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So yes, they are standard, only the ace of spade, the jokers and the ad cards are custom.

In my opinion, they looks very nice and are not too custom to make your audience think they are a trick deck.

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Good post on the custom court cards. When I discovered this hobby last year, I was just buying everything that had been released in the past few years and everything that was being released at the time without any specific goal in mind other than collecting (long time sports card collector and comic books). Then I started buying 2 decks of everything just to have that extra but until 2 weeks ago I had not open a single deck. When I made my post on how to display your card collection, most feedback was how great it is to open decks and touch them and appreciate the design etc etc so I decided to start displaying my decks in 9 pocket sleeves, as I am not really a cardist but just a collector . But some of the decks I have been opening are pretty plain visually with barely any custom cards. So going forward I have decided to buy only multiple decks of sets that do have custom court cards or at least plenty of customization so that I can enjoy them visually and I will buy single deck of plainer looking sets because like I said I like to collect everything.
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Interesting plan, Pete!

Years ago I bought some of those nine-sleeve displays which fit into a standard three-ring binder, and used them to display many of my favorite decks when company would come over, but I dunno if I could leave the cards in there for long.

So fgar, the only place I have ever felt comfortable displaying any of my collection for any length of time was on my oldweb site about the hobby, from 1996-2008.
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Got a few packages tonight. First my platinum seasons deck came in very nice. Second after seeing all the different decks that RS keeps displaying I decided to go out of the box a little and bought 4 decks from Italy and Australia from a seller on ebay. These decks were only about $5 each but looked interesting. The pics are from the auction so that you can see the cards. I might put a pic of the tuck boxes later

First this is a Clown limited deck from the land down under (limited to 300 decks)

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Next I went for a Risque beauties deck hehehe

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The last 2 decks are from Italy

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Also got a medley of decks I was missing for my collection including a Premier Back deck ( finally got one Mike) from a seller on these forums. I will go leave a positive post on this seller now.
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Here are five I got in yesterday's mail:

First, bought on eBay:
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(thanks to - I think it was - CBJ - for pointing it out to me!

Then, bought from Brooke Michael's Poker World (http://www.bmpokerworld.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;):
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(Thanks as always to the gang at bmpokerworld for great service!)

I think that takes my total of Bike decks up to 111 now!
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badpete69 wrote:Got a few packages tonight. First my platinum seasons deck came in very nice. Second after seeing all the different decks that RS keeps displaying I decided to go out of the box a little and bought 4 decks from Italy and Australia from a seller on ebay. These decks were only about $5 each but looked interesting. The pics are from the auction so that you can see the cards. I might put a pic of the tuck boxes later
Nice, Pete!

I'm glad that my posts have perhaps broadened your card horizons!

The "Risque Beauties" deck is evidently a reissue of a cool deck from the 1800s called "Hard-a-port Cut Plugs".

"Hard-a-port" was a brand of cut plug chewing tobacco.

They, like many manufacturers of chewing tobacco, often included single collectible cards in each pack of tobacco they sold (like chewing gum is now sonmetimes sold with baseball cards in the package).

These cards were sometimes in a series (of sports figures, political figures, racy pics of scantily-clad women, etc), and buyers would buy many packs trying to complete a whole set/series.

Hard-a-port then printed a series of racy (for the time) images of scantily-clad women as a set of playing cards - imagine how much tobacco someone had to buy to collect all 53 cards (52+Joker) in the deck!

The cards were much larger than today's "poker-sized" cards (they were around 5"-6" tall, if memory serves).

Modern collectors, as you might imagine, can go for years, decades even, picking up cards from the deck at conventions and auctions, before completing an entire deck.

I have about a dozen or so cards from the original. I will probably pick up a copy of "Risque Beauties" just to have a complete, modern, "miniature" rendition of the deck!
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Just bought a "Risque Beauties" deck from DenverPete on eBay!

I've bought from him a few times now - a good guy, and a fellow member of "52 Plus Joker", a club for collectors of American playing cards (http://www.52plusjoker.org" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;).

Once it comes, I hope to post here some images of cards from the deck along side cards from the original Hard-a-port" deck.
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