Two weird Bicycle decks in transparent plastic case

[doobybrain]

Can anyone fill me in on what these are? Fakes?

The first one is here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/bicycle-playing ... 2579326afe



The second one is similar and is also on eBay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Bicycle-playing ... 2579326cbd

[andrew daugherty]

No need to get overly excited. Those are part of a "fashion" series of colorful backs from USPC about ten years ago. The series used the Bicycle brand; the cards are standard and may have a "plain" ace of spaces, IIRC. USPC also sold the brightly colored Hoyle shellbacks and a similarly branded Hoyle "fashion" series of colorful backs, too.

Found most often at Walmart stores, when they still had two playing card sections: one in the greeting card/party favors aisle and the other in the toy dept.

Cards came in a flexible plastic box that was hard to keep in shape.

Yes, they're more decks with the Bicycle name attached. But not true Bikes or later derivatives.

Enjoy them.

Andrew

[doobybrain]

Thanks for the background info Andrew. So these are about 10 years old huh...interesting.