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Triplicate No.18 Blue Playing Cards Deck USPCC

$11.99 USD
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Triplicate No.18 Blue Playing Cards Deck USPCC

$11.99 USD

The Triplicate No.18 deck was the first of its kind. Andrew Dougherty was granted a U.S. Patent for the Triplicate feature which was a miniature card placed in the top left and bottom right corners. It was a revolution in the way cards could be held and viewed. The decorative ace of spades and the wrapper for the first No.18 Triplicate deck showed a fanned hand of cards with the triplicate miniature indices viewable on each card.

The United States Playing card company has worked with us during the  restoration of this beautiful piece of history. We have been working with USPCC for over 6 months researching archives, designing and formatting. Hundreds of hours have been put into re-drawing the art for these cards to bring this treasure back to life. 

The tuck box, back design and ace of spades have been approved by the United States playing card company as the restored art work for the deck. A. Dougherty® is a registered trademark of The United Stated Playing Card Company.  

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Steven
A Piece of History

Although I would not want triplicates to be the norm in the playing card industry, I could definitely appreciate the historical significance and impact it had in trying to revolutionize playing cards. The concept made sense, but by today's standards, it's pretty clunky and not as practical as the pips we all know and love. That being said, the cards handle fantastic due to USPCC manufacturing the cards. These cards are "usable" but would take some time getting use to. This is definitely more of a collector's item, which I gladly could say is a part of my collection.

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EndersGame
In memory of a concept that never took off

These decks are replicas from a deck that appeared in 1876, which is when indices were just starting to appear on playing cards. The publisher, Andrew Dougherty and Company, offered an alternative: "triplicates". This concept involved a miniature card face printed on the opposite corners of each card. The idea never caught on, making it a very unique deck. These replicas were produced by Home Run Games, and are a very fine handling edition printed by USPCC, so they look and handle well. This particular deck has blue backs, and there's also one available with red backs with a slightly different design.

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Carl McCaskey
Love historicall influenced decks.

Not much else to say except if you like historically-inspired decks then you really need to add this one to your collection.

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