ringmaster
Inner circle
Memphis, Down in Dixie
1974 Posts
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Posted: Feb 21, 2018 03:00 am
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There is an extreme offset(1/16"") to the white borders. Helen Keller could read them across the room.
One of the last living 10-in-one performers. I wanted to be in show business the worst way, and that was it.
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GreatLorenzo
New user
11 Posts
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Posted: Feb 21, 2018 08:15 pm
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There are often such quality control issues with US Playing Card Co. cards. I bought a brick of normal rider backs and about half the decks in the brick, not all, just about half, had a noticeable offset in the printing / cutting process such that one side's white border was wider than the other. I just checked the 2 opened Jerry's Nuggets that I have, and the blue backed one has a slight border width difference, left vs right of only about 1/32". The red backed deck's borders were all spot on, identical in width.
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Teddy Meagher
New user
53 Posts
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Posted: Mar 21, 2018 05:29 am
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A lot of cards have this accidental feature, I listened to a podcast one time about a gambler taking advantage of this misprint in Bee style playing cards, after playing with the deck for a while the gambler was able to essentially learn these misprints as a marked deck
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MudMedic
New user
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
41 Posts
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Posted: Aug 21, 2018 05:40 pm
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I have always noticed Caravan decks as being cut slightly off...I once opened up a deck and the cut was so poor it ran through the pips.
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HeronsHorse
Loyal user
Scotland
207 Posts
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Posted: Dec 28, 2018 07:50 pm
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I've had a couple of decks in a brick of blue bikes that has such a case of this, narrow at one edge, on every single card, that I took to using it for amazing revelations all down to the one way effect. Unfortunately one deck got damaged and the other is lost.! I continue to check every new deck though.
I first read about this in an old gambling book. Might have been sharps and flats.
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Those who think that magic consists of doing tricks are strangers to magic. Tricks are only the crude residue from which the lifeblood of magic has been drained."
- S.H. Sharpe
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RICH 644
New user
11 Posts
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Posted: Feb 10, 2019 03:36 am
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I took an offset printing class years ago, and the instructor told us that the normal human eye can detect a 1/32" error in registration. When there is !/16" error you could see it across the room.
I've been reading Richard Kaufman's book "Theodore DeLand Mystery and Madness". The book tells about DeLand selling the rights for his inventions to A C Gilbert's Mysto Magic Mfg. in 1911. The extremely poor registration on the Mysto Cards led to a decline in the popularity of the DeLand Card Tricks. Gilbert was getting into the toy business with his Erector Sets at that time, so his Mysto Magic sets became mere toys for kids. Today they are toys for "Kid of All Ages".
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Richard Kaufman
Inner circle
2532 Posts
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Posted: Feb 18, 2019 05:59 pm
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Dai Vernon used to slay magicians by noting small "off" details in decks of cards, or even on a single card.
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Good to here.