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India adds eight per cent excise duty on playing cards.
Plus other interesting facts about card production in India.
http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=50754

More about the playing card duty in India
http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=50755

Three of Tennessee's Most Wanted are now featured in a deck of playing cards, similar to those given to soldiers during the war in Iraq. The Deck of Cards was distributed by the TV show, America's Most Wanted.
http://www.newschannel5.com/content/news/5903.asp

A web site devoted to collecting Holy Cards: www.donet.com/~devitt. Today, he has more than 20,000 cards in his collection. The oldest date to the 1680s.

STARZ Behind Barz to Sell Celebrity Mug Shot Playing Cards
<http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040420/cgtu056_1.html>

The digital museum of collecting - dotpattern.com, has been keeping us busy creating new pages and new content about collecting postcards, trading cards, matchbooks and playing cards. Check out some of the topics below:

Art Nouveau postcards Dutch phone cards artwerk gallery

rock 'n roll pins from the 80's pin-up calendars pin-up matchcovers

Our subscription to the The Rathkamp Matchcover Society came in the mail, accompanied by a big package - including the 508th edition of the RMS Bulletin (bi-monthly, 32 pages - accepts advertising) and a huge directory with members' collecting topics. Included with the first-time membership is invaluable collecting information including Selected Glossary of Collecting Terms and the very informative Match Tips by Bill Thomas - RMS member #2737. They even included samples of matchcovers in our favorite collecting topic - motels!

RMS is a national organization, and the Bulletin covers news from other matchcover groups at the State and local level. Packed with in-depth articles on matchcover topics, letters to the editor and regular features such as "Hobby History", "Around the World" and "Great Finds". The latest issue has an article about the most expensive matchcover/ matchbox ($5,600.99) and the oldest known cover printed with a date (September 28th & 29th 1898). Recommended subscription/ membership for only $15 a year.

Thanks to our new customers, we can now offer more collecting supplies at dotpattern, including 4 pocket pages for small postcards. We found that you can fit the Ultra-PRO postcard sleeves into the pockets of these postcard storage pages for a double layer of protection. Great for dealers and collectors to protect the corners of postcards when replaced into the pockets. Customers from the internet are buying cases of 9 pocket pages and trading cards sleeves, or just getting 10 or 20 matchcover collecting pages in different sizes or a few packs of postcard sleeves. A number of customers return for the low prices and the free shipping offer adotpattern.com/supplies.

Available soon at dotpattern - deck protectors and 4 compartment boxes used for trading card games (TCG) and collectible or customizable card games (CCG). The list of games is huge, including well known Manga and anime stars from Saturday morning cartoons: Yu-Gi-Oh!, Pokémon, Dragonball Z/ GT, Duel Monsters and Magic: The Gathering. Big screen movies and TV shows license trading cards, action figures and other products: Wes Craven, The Lord of the Rings, Buffy, Star Wars, Star Trek, X-Files, the Simpson's and many, many more.

A short and sweet article by George and Mary Green about oversize matchcovers, usually any matchcover over 30 or 40 matches, up to 240 strike. Oversize matches were made for a variety of businesses - industrial products (International Harvester), motel, restaurants, tourist attractions and other topics. Specific manufacturers are listed in the article who produced oversized matches in the years before WWII including the Lion Match Co., Universal and Diamond. Matches by these major match companies, and many smaller companies are valuable collectors items today. The article talks abut storing collectible matchcovers (goto http://www.dotpattern.com/supplies ), and the 1892 invention of paper matches by Joshua Pusey.

"Close Cover Before Striking" is the most printed phrase in the history of the world. Matchbook collecting is second only to collecting stamps as a popular hobby.

Cast your vote before April Fools Day! See latest poll. Who's got the most cards?

Web pages on the Playing Card Joker Group have been added to the influential Open Directory Project in the following category:

Recreation/Collecting/Toys/Games/Playing_Cards/

The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors. (learn more...)

 

You can see right through this deck of cards. The joker from a new deck of playing cards printed onto clear plastic. The pips are printed onto one side, and a simple target pattern is printed onto the back. The court cards are and jokers are very simplified on this deck called Invisible Cards.   Interesting web site for joker collectors: It may be disappointing to learn the joker card is a recent invention, introduced about 500 years after the first playing cards made their appearance in Europe. But, the medieval jester is a perfect companion to the royal court of kings, queens and knights pictured on playing cards. Illustrations of the medieval jester can be found on a German language web site called Die mittelalterliche Narrenidee (The Medieval Fool Idea) - presenting 24 images of jesters found in books and manuscripts from the 16th century.

Metropolitan Post Card Collectors Club

History:

- oldest continuous Post Card Club

- organized November 1, 1946

- over 300 active members from around the world

Monthly meetings:

- held at the New Yorker Hotel, Eighth Aenue and 34th Street in NYC

- short formal meeting with most of the time for sale and exchange

- about 100 members gather

- club auction in June

- album competition in September

- one-day show in March

- two international three-day shows in May and November

Bi-Monthly Bulletin:

- illustrated Newsletter distributed as part of membership

- articles and anecdotes of interest to postcard collectors

- local calendar of events

- news about club members

- details of future club events

Dues:

$15.00 per calendar year

bi-monthly Newsletter

free admission to club meetings

membership card for discounted admission to all major club shows

Meetings usually the second Sunday of the month except for show months and holiday conflicts. Meeting held at the New Yorker Hotel at 8th Avenue and 34th Street - across from the Main Post Office and Penn Station. SHOWS are open to the public, and you can join the club at any of the meetings.

11 January, 8 February,

Winter MINI SHOW on March 4th,
18 April (3rd Sunday),

SHOW 21-23 May,
Club Auction on June 13th,
11 July, 8 August,

Album Competition 12 September,
3 October (1st Sunday),

SHOW 12-14 November
Holiday Party December 12th

info: Ray Chase mailto: enrpnr@erols.com or Carlton Bloodgood mailto: PostCarl@aol.com