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Title: Help me Date These Playing Cards?
Post by: WhoWasThatMaskedMan on February 04, 2012, 03:52:23 pm
Picked up this deck of cards today from a little antique store because they're just the kind of antique I love  ;)

After some quick research it looks like they were a promotional deck for JOB Cigarette Papers based in France.  The people at the store couldn't tell me much except that they came from a 90 year old woman.  They look fairly old but so far I haven't found another deck of these online so I don't know how old.  Any experts around?  Thanks.
Title: Re: Help me Date These Playing Cards?
Post by: Rauville on February 04, 2012, 05:51:15 pm
Here's a playing card site that dates them to about 1930.

http://www.wopc.co.uk/belgium/van-genechten/genoese.html (http://www.wopc.co.uk/belgium/van-genechten/genoese.html)
Title: Re: Help me Date These Playing Cards?
Post by: WhoWasThatMaskedMan on February 04, 2012, 05:58:44 pm
Here's a playing card site that dates them to about 1930.

http://www.wopc.co.uk/belgium/van-genechten/genoese.html (http://www.wopc.co.uk/belgium/van-genechten/genoese.html)

Awesome, didn't think it would be that easy  :)

And they go with my other 30s stuff lol.