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 | Jan 31, 2012 | 11:12 pm EST
If I don't publish a blog post tonight, the whole moth of January will go by without a single blog post. So, I better do it before the clock strikes midnight. I've been meaning to blog about a casino scam that involved beating an automatic ShuffleMaster card shuffler. The scam is already old news, but since I'm not in the breaking news business I g...
| Dec 30, 2011 | 10:20 pm EST
This will be my last blog post in the year 2011. So, I better end the year with something interesting, like, counterfeit playing cards. Spotting fakes is all about the details, so this post will be quite elaborate. Hopefully it will also make some collectors wiser and prevent them from being duped; unless you're like me and you actually want to hav...
| Nov 18, 2011 | 12:02 am EST
Earlier this year I made a post about Early 20th Century French Playing Cards, in which I show an image of an original wrapper that was used to wrap the deck, as well as a facsimile deck with a reproduction of a wrapper. Here is a picture of two near mint condition early 20th century French decks, still sealed in their original wrappers, that have...
| Nov 10, 2011 | 11:57 am EST
In my earlier post, Early 20th Century French Playing Cards, I spoke about some of the characteristics of French playing cards, from the early 20th century. In this post, I would like to describe some of the characteristics of 19th century French cards. The purpose of this post is to share some of the information that I know, to help collectors. He...
| Oct 07, 2011 | 03:48 pm EDT
Marked cards have probably been around for as long as playing cards have been used for gambling. In fact, the first marked cards were likely to be unintentionally marked by their makers, as the first playing cards were hand made and thus subject to inconsistencies. But as playing cards evolved through history so did methods of marking them for the...
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