Collecting Playing Cards, Identification and Value Guide - Softcover

Pickvet, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1574325248 ISBN 13: 9781574325249

Publisher: Collector Books, 2006

Synopsis

Playing cards, though still affordable, may not be for long, considering their availability on eBay and other online auction services. The listings on these sites for playing cards at times exceeds 10,000, putting the hobby in line with such collectibles as Coca-Cola, dolls, bottles, furniture, shot glasses, and Star Wars. This handy guide provides the most comprehensive listings to date along with current market values on popular collectible playing cards from the later nineteenth century to the present, with a focus on advertising. There are over 1,600 listings along with hundreds of photographs. Soft drinks, beer, NASCAR, sports, casinos, airlines, cartoons, restaurants, colleges, department stores, and other hot categories of cards are featured in this comprehensive guide.

About this title

About the Author:

Mark Pickvet is a long-time glass appraiser, price recorder, and part-time amateur historian. He has authored two titles for Collector Books: Collecting Playing Cards, and Collector s Guide to Paperweights, due to be released in Spring 2007.

Review:

Playing cards have always looked like a fun item to collect. You will find mare than 1,600 packs of cards listed and several hundred sets pictured in color in this new book. Playing cards come in many different themes such as Disney and Harley-Davidson.

About this edition

• Publisher: Collector Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1574325248
• ISBN 13: 9781574325249
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240