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Good neighbor Inca playing cards
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Title
Good neighbor Inca playing cards.
Publication
St. Paul, Minnesota : Brown & Bigelow, 1941.
Physical Description
54 cards : color ; 90 x 58 mm
Medium
lithography
Local Notes
BEIN UAS219 1: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards.
BEIN UAS219 2: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards.
Notes
Title from Ace of Spades.
French suit system.
Type: Original design.
Composition of deck: 52 [A, K, Q, J, 10-2], 2 text cards.
Ace of Spades: [pip] / GOOD / NEIGHBOR / INCA [MAYA] / PLAYING CARDS / AMERICAN ASSOCIATION / OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN.
CourtCards: Inca: One source of the court designs was the Paracas Textile, woven by an Indian tribe in Peru. The queens are drawn from pictures of cat goddesses. The kings are taken from pictures of Inca rulers. The jacks are warriors. Maya: The designs were drawn from one of the three surviving books of Mayan learning, the Dresden codex. The courts are in classic Mayan style, with rulers robed in fabrics rich in color and design, with feathered mantles and headdresses of gold, jewels, and jade.
Extra cards: Bridge score card; descriptive card.
Issued in black double box, clear wrapper.
Tax adhesive (Scott, RF27) on clear wrapper with cancellation: B & B.
Variant and related titles
Good neighbor Maya playing cards.
Format
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Added to Catalog
March 17, 2021
References
Keller, W.B. Catalogue of the Cary Collection of Playing Cards in the Yale University Library, USA219
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Playing cards.
Tax stamps (Printing)
Also listed under
Brown & Bigelow, playing card maker.
American Association of University Women, sponsor.
Cary Collection of Playing Cards (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
United States Minnesota Saint Paul.
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