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I feel like I have just seen that tuck box - as in this week. I will try and back track but I jump from one thing to another so much, I am not hopeful

Edit: Just found a joker with a balloon on a pole riding a donkey that looks somewhat similar so there is every chance that that was what my crazy brain was remembering But I have definitely been viewing Dondorf - Shakespeare decks lately so I will not give up yet
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I was starting to think I was just going mad but I found that I visited this page 4 days ago, so I will keep looking
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I must give up (hard for me being somewhat obsessive). I had to go to that Worthpoint page (and I would think other related pages - possibly with the tuck of interest) from a 'Search' but despite meticulously going through my Search history I cannot find how I came to that page. :x
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This mystery has an answer. Mark Irwin recently posted an article featuring the mystery cards. I took down the picture of the mystery cards as the photo wasn't mine to share. It was a picture showing the classic 1902 Swan Sonnenschien Shakespeare cards but with a different AS, back, and box. I couldn't figure out what these were (they didn't belong to any subsequent reproductions and WWPCM had no record of them) so I started asking about them. Found the answer in Mark's article. It was an advertising deck printed for the Munich Lion Brew Company soon after the original 1902 version was published. You may have to scroll around to find the article: https://dondorf.co.uk
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Thank you, thank you Ato5 - my memory was indeed right!!!!!!!
When I opened your link above, I found that I already had it Bookmarked so I had indeed seen the tuck box prior to your Help request :lol:
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