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Lot 383

Three USPC Salesman?s Sample Playing Card Volumes. Includin...

Estimate: $500 - $700

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Three USPC Salesman?s Sample Playing Card Volumes. Including: U.S. Playing Card Co. Samples of Playing Cards (Cincinnati, ca. 1900s), oblong 4to volume with mounted samples of Bicycle and other USPC playing cards including Steamboat, Aladdin, Sportsman, Apollo, Revelation (fortune-telling), bridge, souvenir, and others, interleaved with glassine [two samples removed from ?Army & Navy? page], plus a page of mounted sample USPC poker chips at rear, and a jumbo Bicycle card on the rear pastedown; a USPC Congress accordion-fold salesman?s sample booklet (Cincinnati, 1902); and a USPC salesman?s sample booklet of 50 Congress, Bicycle, Steamboat, Little Duke, and Hornet playing card backs (ca. 1900s). A fine group of scarce sample volumes.