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THBJames Y. Humphreys ?Seminole Wars? Playing Cards.
Lot 249
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Our annual gambling and playing card auction will include items in many categories: uncommon and beautifully bound books on cards, crime, cons, and poker, as well as books on cheating and crooked gambling, chief among them the works of Jonathan H. Green and S.W. Erdnase. Prices Realized Potter & Potter Auctions info@potterauctions.com
Our annual gambling and playing card auction will include items in many categories: uncommon and beautifully bound books on cards, crime, cons, and poker, as well as books on cheating and crooked gambling, chief among them the works of Jonathan H. Green and S.W. Erdnase. Prices Realized Potter & Potter Auctions info@potterauctions.com
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James Y. Humphreys ?Seminole Wars? Playing Cards. [Philadelphia]: J.Y. Humphreys, ca. 1819. 50 (of 52) cards. Lacks the 7C and 9D. Courts are engraved full-length portraits, with hand-coloring, representing the Jacks (or knaves) as Indian chiefs (Ee-mat-la, [King Phillip], Red Jacket, Gy-ant-wachia [Cornplanter], and Joseph Brant), the Queens as classical goddesses (Athena, Justice, Venus, and Ceres), and the Kings as American Presidents (Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington). Backs dots and asterisks. French suit system (colors red, green, yellow/orange, and blue). Corner chips and skinning to KH, light foxing and soiling, stenciling of diamonds very faint. Hochman NR1. Keller USA 204 (dating the deck ca. 1800). Life Magazine featured this deck on the cover of its May 30, 1955 issue, although it incorrectly substituted a Jazaniah Ford Ace of Spades.
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