Vintage Bicycle Playing Cards
A bicycle built for two. Or four. Or a full house.
If you're having a vintage-themed party, sometimes it's hard to know where to go to get all the little details right. Throwing a 1920s gambling murder mystery? Hosting a Titanic event and need the right playing cards for the first class smoking room? Here's a little detail that should give you no trouble at all: finding period-correct playing cards.
The Bicycle brand has been around for well over 100 years. That lovely, spokey classic has little-changed over that time (and let us not forget that when Bicycle first produced these cards, the bicycle was an extremely trendy objet -- it was sort of like putting a Vespa on the card backs) . However, the design you see today is not that of the older vintage eras. From 1892 through the 1943 Bicycle produced a standard design that is available today. Available for about $4 from a variety of sources, this is one historic detail that should be easy to get right and won't break the bank.
Where can I find this?
Vintage Bicycle Playing Cards
http://www.unclesgames.com/product_info.php/products_id/8170
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