Jock1971 wrote:A Bezique deck from Reynolds and Son to start of with.
Reynolds were producing playing cards from 1809 up until they were took over from Goodalls in 1885.The Ace was used from 1862 (When the "Old Frizzle" was abolished) till 1885.The Rounded corners points to this deck being produced in the early 1880`s as Square corners were the norm up until that point.
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Interesting - that's the one I showed the other day in "Look what I added..." thread - still sealed. Most decks of that time frame were either wrapped in paper of a fibrous linen-like cloth, and don't have tucks as we know them. That one's in quite good condition to be some 125+ years old, for sure!
About dazz's comment about Dondorf "eating the big burrito" on that 12-color deck - the process was never really used again except during the late 50's, 60's and early 70's by Zander GMbH and they only produced some 1000 decks total and put them in a totally non-descript tuck that - unless you specifically know what you're looking for you would never fine. I did know, and I have one of Dr Zander's "Fine Papers" specimen decks made only to highlight the potential for the use of both that special bond (paper stock) and the 12-color process used, but it was a simple offset lithography, and didn't really approach what you can do today with a high-color process. I've already described enough about Chromografix here (SWTWC #4) and to be quite honest, anything beyond an 8-color process is wasted on playing cards, because not only are there not enough 'spots' on the face of a single card to use anything more (9-color or higher process), even on a whole uncut sheet you still have 15 color shades per pixel at digital effective of 1600dpi analog printing.
The deck I have is a fabulous example of that 12-color process, and compares favorably to the famous "Norwood 85" decks prototypes made by USPCC in 1920's, and never even tried again. They're stunning in quality, though - and these Chromografix are going to let us relive history and create a whole new class of playing cards using a technique and process that is quite revolutionary as opposed to evolutionary - as I have already pointed out. I have a patent pending on the process, technique and methodology, so I'll defer further comment until I hear more from the USP&TO about the application. It took an attorney more than two weeks to adequately describe the process and results from my notes, so I'm fairly certain that it's not a trivial pursuit. We'll see. Here's another little look at the "Boer of Hearts" (farmer) from that deck Dr Zander created to show off both his paper and the ability to show the ultra high-color results, although as I noted, this was an analog version, so there is a good bit of 'bleed' between some of what should be distinct color areas. Still -quite impressive knowing that there was only one 12-color Heidelberg press ever made, and Dr Zander had it. Apparently is was either fickle or quite temperamental and nothing really ever became of it. Without disclosing anything I haven't already, I met with the successors of Zander GMbH by video conference last week to get some paper stock samples of there existing fine German bond papers, and found out that they no longer make a suitable 'board' (that's what they call cardboard in Germany) that is printable on both sides of sufficient quality to meet me needs - but they're working on it. I've going to spec out a 350gsm board with brightness on both sides sufficient to use for playing cards. It will be an interesting task, once Bill K can clear enough time to squeeze in one more "new technology" experiment at the factory. In fact he's quite busy right now, and I suppose here in a couple of months I"m getting ready to throttle his production capacity, suspecting that another press will be required already, and those things aren't cheap! I'm still waiting on him to get me the metric specs for the paper for them down to the millimeter, because they're not the standard size we're used to here using English measures (at all), and I need to fit certain specs for moisture content, shininess, fibre, smoothness, etc, etc. Zander GMbH was bought by A.S.S. in 1972, and these just died a quiet death.
Sorry Jace - now back to your regularly scheduled topic: (oh, and I shouldn' t hijack the thread any more, but here's that little cut-out of the Boer of Hearts)
-Jase-
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By the way i won the Will`s 200th Anniversary set with the maiden bId of £4+£3 P&P. 
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