Porcelain surfaced moguls : double heads / manufactured by John J. Levy, N.Y.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levy, John J., 1824-1895.

Contributor:

Consolidated Card Company (New York, N.Y.)

Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Playing cards--Specimens.

Playing card makers--New York (State)--New York.

Playing card makers.

Playing cards.

New York (State)--New York.

Genre:

Specimens.

playing cards

Playing cards.

Penn Provenance:

Kaplan, Arnold Harvey, 1939- (donor) (Kaplan Collection copy)

Kaplan, Deanne (donor) (Kaplan Collection copy)

Physical Description:

53 cards in 1 wrapper : color illustrations ; 90 x 65 mm

Place of Publication:

New York : Consolidated Card Co., [between 1871 and 1875?]

Notes:

Deck consists of 52 cards in French suits with reversible face cards (ace of spades has imprint: Jno. J. Levy 184 William St. New York.) and 1 "Best Bower" (with imprint: Consolidated Card Co. N.Y.), issued in blue printed wrapper illustrated with portrait bust of a man in Turkish dress.

Title and statement of responsibility from wrapper; place of publication and publisher from "Best Bower."

The Consolidated Card Company was founded in 1871 as an amalgamation of the card-making firms Lawrence and Cohen, John J. Levy, and Samuel Hart and Company. Initially the company continued to produce cards under its constituents' brand names (identified on the ace of spades) but "by 1875, newly designed brands with NYCC Aces of Spades were being brought onto the market, although it would still be many years before the Samuel Hart name would be completely phased out. The Lawrence, Cohen and Levy names must not have had as much appeal and disappeared shortly thereafter."--Hochman, p. 46.

In this deck the ace of spades is that of Hochman NY23 (ca. 1867); the joker ("Best Bower") is that of Hochman NY13 (ca. 1871), NY23 and NY39 (ca. 1870).

Local Notes:

Kaplan Collection copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Arnold and Deanne Kaplan.

Kaplan Collection copy has illegible rectangular black ink stamp on front face of wrapper.

Kaplan Collection copy: wrapper (damaged) retained.

Kaplan Collection copy collectify accession no. 2016.02.23.00001

Cited in:

Dawson, T. and J. Hochman encyclopedia of American playing cards, NY23

OCLC:

963755244