Bicycle Steampunk Playing Cards

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The Bicycle Steampunk playing cards are standard poker sized deck. This is the bronze edition, and and features cog and gear covered backs, and a metallic bronze tuck case. Original artwork is found on the ace of spades, joker, card back design, and tuck case. A subtle touch is the USPCC closure stamp, which is usually black, is a golden bronze color on this deck.

While the artwork is lovely, and the deck does sport the name “steampunk,” there are other artist decks out there that really run with the steampunk theme. I would say that these are more steampunk lite. This deck is unopened in the original packaging. 

“Politicards 2012 casts today’s most popular political players as characters from classic feature films. Selected and ranked by national polls, the leading election year politicians, pundits and celebs are caricatured by Politicards creator and award-winning illustrator Peter Green.”

This deck a standard poker sized deck with 52 cards, each card face featuring a different caricature, with blue spade and club pips, and two jokers, the Democrat donkey and the Republican elephant. This deck is still sealed. Politicards have been issued for every election year beginning in 1996, though the first deck was released in 1972. I have a deck for every year except for 1996.

2012 Politicards, Guess who's who, doing what in D.C.?

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Everyone's a wild card!

Back of deck

Feminist Playing Cards is a project from Homoground, a music website that promotes visibility for minority musicians. The deck features custom illustrations of 52 feminist musicians drawn by 14 feminist artists. Some of the musicians featured include Joan Jett, Liz Fair, Nina Simone, Loretta Lynn, Joni Mitchell, Grace Jones, PJ Harvey, and more. Each card is different. This is a 56 card deck, with two jokers, still sealed in its original package. The tuck box is not a standard tuck box, and the edges are not glued securely. I have to tape the edges to keep the box together.  For all of the card faces, and information from the artist who drew it, visit Feminist Playing Cards.

Feminist Playing Cards By Homoground Riot Grrrl Inc

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Design on the backs of each card

Card back design

The Nightmare Before Christmas, Jack holding a jack-o-lantern

Front of deck and card back design

This is a standard poker size 52 card deck with two jokers. The face cards and aces, as well as the jokers are characters from the movie. The jack and queen cards of all four suits are Jack and Sally, and the king cards are the Mayor. Each one is slightly different pose/facial expression. The ace of spades is Jack, and the ace of diamonds, hearts, and clubs are Lock, Shock, and Barrel respectively. The jokers are Scary Teddy. They are unsealed, but still in the original plastic case. These were only available at Disneyland New Orleans Square during the holiday makeover of the Haunted Mansion in 2003. 

These Monty Python playing cards are one deck from a two deck gift set. The original set comes with two decks of cards and poker chips. Each card has a different image from Monty Python’s many television and movie productions. This deck is unopened, in shrink wrap. I only have one of two decks, and I do not have the original box they came in.

Monty Python Playing Cards

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Copyright information

Back of deck showing info card