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I found out about these in looking at details for the Aurum release. I missed the original KS obviously, but have wanted some ever since I saw them. These are very striking visually and great to play with.

*edit-Sorry the photos keep coming up sideways, not sure how to fix that. Maybe just take the photo sideways to begin with? Any help is appreciated
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elcyciB wrote:*edit-Sorry the photos keep coming up sideways, not sure how to fix that. Maybe just take the photo sideways to begin with? Any help is appreciated
Maybe whatever messed up your User Name is also effecting your camera? ;)
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elcyciB wrote:I found out about these in looking at details for the Aurum release. I missed the original KS obviously, but have wanted some ever since I saw them. These are very striking visually and great to play with.

*edit-Sorry the photos keep coming up sideways, not sure how to fix that. Maybe just take the photo sideways to begin with? Any help is appreciated
That's very weird, I saved it to disk so I could rotate it and reupload it for you, and then it seemed to be perfectly all right when I opened it...
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Hey guys,
First time doing so pretty excited to show you my collection:
- roughly 280 decks
- most are first editions
- half unopened due to value
- first edition artifact coins (one gold)
- uncut sheets of my Galvanic deck
- complete set of printing plates (8 in total) of the Galvanic print

Would love to hear what you guys think! I will be uploading pictures later of my uncut sheet frame, printing plates and a very special one of a kind frame I have never seen done before by this community : D

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My beautiful uncut sheet frame displaying my Bicycle deck : D
My girlfriend gave this to my for my birthday this past saturday. She is truly amazing!!

Also a box filled with uncut sheets! Anyone want any?? : P
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8 printing plates: 4 of the faces and 4 of the backs. (Black, cyan, magenta and yellow)
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And last but not least: a beautiful display frame that is practically invisible!!
Yup my girlfriend did this for me too for my birthday : )
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Awesome stuff Sean! I didn't know that you got the printing plates for it!

Btw, I never got my decks, and I've been messaging you and getting no response.
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Hit me up a pm. And thanks! : D I love these frames
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Just received my rare Santa cards. Picked up a tin relatively cheap this week

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That is AWESOME badpete. I'm pretty jealous
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Very cool, badpete! I too, am very jealous of that. Do you know how much those are worth nowadays?
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I bought a set of Holiday Backs once, the less rare "sibling" set of the Santa Backs.

When I opened them, the cards inside were Santa Backs :D
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MagikFingerz wrote:I bought a set of Holiday Backs once, the less rare "sibling" set of the Santa Backs.

When I opened them, the cards inside were Santa Backs :D
Haha thats pretty awesome :lol:
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Evan wrote:Very cool, badpete! I too, am very jealous of that. Do you know how much those are worth nowadays?
Evan..I think this set as hard as it is to get goes easily for over $150. I was lucky to get it at half that. But in the end as for any collectibles, something is worth as much as someone is willing to pay for it ;)
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Very jealous! I still need a set for my collection!
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CBJ wrote:Very jealous! I still need a set for my collection!
I can't believe YOU don't have those! :o :P
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"Bicycle" decks I don't have.. and need!!

Cage Garden white
Cage Garden Black
Original Fake ( red )
Original Fake ( pink )
Original Fake ( yellow )
Original Fake ( blue )
Original Fake ( black )
New Era ( gold )
Dirty for 30
Santa Back ( red )
Santa Back ( green )
Five Hundred
Smiling back
Tri-K
Incredible Shrinking Deck
Promotional Deck
Alchemy V2
Anne Stokes V2
Grimoire
Expert Back ( fixed )
Serpent

and 20 of the Merz decks
Santa Maiden ( red )
Santa Maiden ( green )
Trace ( yellow )
Trace ( purple )
Trace ( green )
Trace ( black )
Trace ( gold )
Trace ( silver )
Trace ( blue )
Trace ( red )
Giraffe
Snake
Leopard
Tiger
Red, White, and Blue 1
Red, White, and Blue 2
Red, White, and Blue 3
Red, White, and Blue 4
Red, White, and Blue 5
Red, White, and Blue 6

... anyone?
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CBJ wrote: and 20 of the Merz decks
Santa Maiden ( red )
Santa Maiden ( green )
Trace ( yellow )
Trace ( purple )
Trace ( green )
Trace ( black )
Trace ( gold )
Trace ( silver )
Trace ( blue )
Trace ( red )
Giraffe
Snake
Leopard
Tiger
Red, White, and Blue 1
Red, White, and Blue 2
Red, White, and Blue 3
Red, White, and Blue 4
Red, White, and Blue 5
Red, White, and Blue 6

... anyone?
You buy Merz decks?!?!
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Lol.. No. But those are the decks i need to help complete the collection
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Not exactly the newest cards in the lot but the newest addition to my collection:

The red artifice

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And purple!

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I love the Purple, had not seen that!
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CBJ wrote:"Bicycle" decks I don't have.. and need!!

Cage Garden white
Cage Garden Black
Original Fake ( red )
Original Fake ( pink )
Original Fake ( yellow )
Original Fake ( blue )
Original Fake ( black )
New Era ( gold )
Dirty for 30
Santa Back ( red )
Santa Back ( green )
Five Hundred
Smiling back
Tri-K
Incredible Shrinking Deck
Promotional Deck
Alchemy V2
Anne Stokes V2
Grimoire
Expert Back ( fixed )
Serpent

and 20 of the Merz decks
Santa Maiden ( red )
Santa Maiden ( green )
Trace ( yellow )
Trace ( purple )
Trace ( green )
Trace ( black )
Trace ( gold )
Trace ( silver )
Trace ( blue )
Trace ( red )
Giraffe
Snake
Leopard
Tiger
Red, White, and Blue 1
Red, White, and Blue 2
Red, White, and Blue 3
Red, White, and Blue 4
Red, White, and Blue 5
Red, White, and Blue 6

... anyone?

I have some of those, although I am looking for a very similar list plus some Bicycle decks such as the 125 anniversary test decks, the berry test deck, the grand opening deck and the Sylvan Huzain deck...

Which are the Tri-K deck and the Expert Back (fixed) deck?

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One of my first Kickstarter pledges came in today. The Tacoma deck. Just bought one for my collection. I know probably this deck had limited appeal but had to had one hehe. Since I live not too far from Tacoma I was invited to the launch party last friday but could not make it. So I had them mail it

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Hah, that's kind of fun.
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You live near Tacoma? Heck, we're almost neighbors! (I live in Salem, OR)

a launch party for a card deck would have been fun!

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Scans of two recent additions to my collection:

==========[ RISQUE BEAUTIES ]==========

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Bought this on eBay from seller DenverPete.

This is a modern, poker-sized reprint of a series of cards from (I believe) the 1880s.

I say "series of cards" rather than "deck of cards" because the original cards were purchased, one at a time, as inserts into packages of plug tobacco, and were collected, much like kids now buy packs of bubble gum to collect an entire set of baseball cards (do kids still do that?).

The originals are quite oversized (if memory serves, they are about five inches tall), and modern collectors can take many years purchasing the cards one or two at a time at conventions or online to complete the deck! I myself have probably six or seven of the original cards, and hope to upload images of some of them here when I can dig them oiut.

==========[ THE TAPE DECK ]==========

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I purchased this one a couple of months ago at a Bed, Bath & Beyond store, of all places.

The deck is an interesting idea whi was not quite realized, I think.

The most clever part, not shown here, is the "box", a clear plastic hinged case, made to look like the clear plastic hinged cases which audio cassette tapes used to come in (may still do, for all I know).

With the deck inside, and the back (shown above, with "Mixed Deck" on it, it could easily be mistaken for an oversized cassette tape!

The designer(s) extended this "eighties music" theme by incorporating generic musical performers on the courts and jokers. A nice idea, but the artwork looks like it was hastily drawn by an amateur artist.

A nice idea though, and a fun conversation piece to add to my collection!

Here is a page with more images (including the case):

http://www.vat19.com/dvds/cassette-tape ... -cards.cfm" 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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This

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and this one soon:

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I can't quite make out what those Bikes are. Is that a clown on them?

Also, the eBay tags should go around just the item number, not the item's URL.

Here is the one you apparently were trying to show us:

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The auction ended. Did you get it?
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