Set Reminder2020-03-28 12:00:002020-03-28 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Gambling Memorabilia & Playing Cards https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/gambling-memorabilia-playing-cards-21985 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.
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Tiffany & Co. Harlequin Playing Cards. New York, 1879. Designed by C.E. Carryl. 52 + EC (blank). Transformation deck, pip cards with humorous and witty captions accompanying occupational, racial, and political designs; courts also humorously depicted, Jack of Clubs with a pug in the crook of his arm, smoking a cigar; King of Diamond plays a banjo; and the King of Spades is badly injured, in a cane, sling, and foot bandage. All gilt edges. Original box [crudely taped, defective]. Hochman T4. Beautifully color lithographed, and widely regarded as the most artistic and skillful American transformation deck.