Two packs of ‘Kyoto Souvenir Playing Cards’, made by Nintendo within the FiftiesPhoto: Before Mario
Erik Voskuil, who runs the fantastic Before Mario (and has written a superb e book by the identical identify), has one of many world’s most interesting collections of Nintendo stuff. Recently, although, he managed to pay money for one thing that was particular even by his requirements: a few packets of Nintendo enjoying playing cards from the Fifties, depicting the corporate’s hometown of Kyoto.
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“I cannot overstate how exicited I was to find these seventy year old Nintendo cards, featuring Kyoto in the 1950s”, Voskuil wrote excitedly on August 7. “In all my years of collecting, these are the only copies I have come across.” To put that into perspective, writing on his weblog, Voskuil provides that that is the primary time he’s ever seen the playing cards—printed completely in English—up on the market, after spending “more than twenty years of searching for vintage Nintendo items.”
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Having publicly aired his hesitation over opening the packets—these are worthwhile, and if remained closed would retain that worth—Voskuil ultimately determined to open certainly one of them and go away the opposite, since that may let him see what the playing cards have been really like inside whereas additionally holding the second set sealed.
Sadly, his preliminary pleasure didn’t final lengthy.
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“However, when I carefully removed part of the wrapper, I quickly discovered that all cards had been completely fused together”, he writes. “They had remained pressed together for such a long time, likely under hot and humid conditions, that the ink on all cards had made them stick together completely. The stack of individual cards had turned into one solid brick. The photo prints on the cards, that contain relatively large amounts of ink, may have contributed to this as well.”
Note that these playing cards are previous, and so lacked any of the plastic or laminates we’d usually affiliate with enjoying playing cards produced in more moderen many years. These ones have been made completely of paper, so when he says they’ve fused collectively, he means it. This is not a deck of playing cards, however an costly block of paper.
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Checking the second pack, Voskuil discovered these playing cards had suffered the same destiny, and whereas some have instructed “placing the packs in the freezer for some time”, or “putting them in a ‘sweat box’ also used by stamp collectors,” he says grimly that “these packs, unfortunately, are beyond any of these methods, and will remain fused together, forever.”
Bummer! The solely solace to be discovered is that even the containers are beautiful, and that Voskuil at the very least got here away with one card, since one of many two decks had a pattern card hooked up to the again of it that could possibly be eliminated.
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You can see extra pics of the playing cards, and study extra about simply why they have been so vital, at Before Mario.
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