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KEM playing cards
Title
KEM playing cards.
Publication
St. Paul, Minnesota : New York, New York : Brown & Bigelow, KEM Card Sales Corporation, [1939?]
Physical Description
54 cards : color ; 89 x 52 mm + 1 booklet
Medium
lithography
Local Notes
BEIN USA39 1: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards.
BEIN USA39 2: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards.
Notes
Title from Ace of Spades.
Suit system: French
Type: Anglo-American
Composition of deck: 52 [A, K, Q, J, 10-2], j, text card, booklet, inspection slips.
Aces: AS: [pip] / © 1935 BY KEM CARD SALES / CORP. / KEM PLAYING CARDS / C78.
Extra Cards: Advertisement card: New York World's Fair 1939
Taxation: Adhesive (Scott, RF23) on wrapper with cancellation: B & B.
Notes: The booklet, "The Thrilling Story of KEM Cards", describes the special features of these cards. Ely Culbertson was involved with the development of these washable, "germproof" cards.
Format
Images
Added to Catalog
August 19, 2021
References
Keller, W.B. Catalogue of the Cary Collection of Playing Cards in the Yale University Library, USA39
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Playing cards.
Tax stamps (Printing)
Also listed under
Brown & Bigelow, playing card maker.
Cary Collection of Playing Cards (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
United States Minnesota St. Paul.
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