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Name: Tally Ho Fan Back
Date: 7.13.2009

Front : A. Doughtery Linoid Finish Tally Ho Playing Cards No. 9

Left : The U.S. Playing Card Co. Cincinnati, Ohio 45212

Cost: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ○
Good mileage for your cardistry dollar. Or dollars. Depending on how much you want to stock up on these. Make sure you stock up on good ones. Not cheap quality ones. Yea. There are cheap quality ones.

Availability: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ○ ○ ○
Well. Its difficult for most people to find these in stores. You should check online stores. Especially eBay for good brick deals. And stuff. But , but,,, I heard either fan back or circle back was going to be unstocked from production. Forget which one. But yea. Good idea to pick these up. Now.

Life/Finish: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ○ ○

Well. Not playing with these enough, they feel like bicycles to me. But that’s a horrible comparison. Because these have a super linoid finish. But yea. it’s a good quality stock with aircushiony dimples. Apparently preferred by many for card magic and XCM and such. Life. Uhm…personally , they’re cheap enough that you could get away with tossing them out eventually.

Faro: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ○ ○

Nothing to complain about here. About the same difficulty as bicycles.

Back Design: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ○ ○

My personal opinion. I enjoy Fan backs more than circle backs. Yep. Must be the small little birds on the fans. I like small woodland type animals.__.

Pop Out Move: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ○ ○ ○ ○
Take no heed to this move I’m posting. Its just. Really frustrating to me. In terms of practice. Blah blah blah. I mean, all decks work for this move. But I’m just taking it out on Tallies. At the moment. Hahah. Fun stuff. Needs to get back to work. The CK version of Piet Forton from t11.

Comments

Tally Fan : Tally Ho ! *Waves one arm in the air*

-I picked up a brick of these off of eBay for about 25$. Yay. Last year. Most of them(blue) ended up as gifts. The reds one ended up as practice fodder/fuel. Hm. Ramble time. The actual ones I got, seemed to be lower quality. Like. Less perfect feeling than what they should be. Still recommended and stuff. Cause. They’re awesome cheap. Ness. In a linoid finish bundle. Yep.

–Kudos ♪♫

ooh. back. 4 days out. AX takes a lot out of you in the form of walking. so. sore. back on track again today. this and a trick arrco tahoe arrived through ebay goods today. haha. fun. pondering magic texts to pick up. fun. drawing using computer media again. fun.

Name: Virginia Slims
Date: 7.06.2009

Cost: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
Hmm. I’d imagine you’d only find these on Ebay at varying prices.

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They’re not in high demand on eBay though, so they’re easy to pick up. Keep in mind that these cards were made in 1985 though. Over 20 years ago. O o

Virginia Slims : Jokers/Ad
Life/Finish: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ○ ○ ○ ○

Virginia Slims : Index Face Spread. Awesome.

Comment time. The finish itself feels closest to Streamline so far. Streamline is that plasticky coating on a card without air cushion dimples. Next note. These cards are really thin. Probably the thinnest covered by this blog so far. They even ‘feel’ thin. Like absolut deck. Though those feel heavy for being thin. This stock is light and crisp. If I had access to this stock. I’d use it. The stock basically bends to your will. Crimp it? All good. Just bend it back.

Faro: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ○

Highly agreeable. Light.

Back Design: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ○ ○ ○ ○

Virginia Slims : You've come a long way, baby.

White bordered. Good. Odd back design choice. “You’ve come a long way, baby” written all over. Ew….Well. Got to love the faces though. Pips come in red and blue instead of black. Indices are well done. Court cards are one way faced of old time figures. Neatttt. This deck was well customized. Well decked out. 1 red/1blue joker. Check. Ad card for Virginia Slims. Check. Propaganda is good.

Tenkai Palm: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ○ ○

Well. Depends on your exact handling. But the lightness and stock basically contributes as a plus to the execution. And short timeframe. Yay.

Comments

Virginia Slims : Smoking is in fact, bad for your health. Don't smoke. Children.

-2 decks come in a neat tuck in box. Cool. Virginia Slims. All four aces have VS engraved all over. Red and blue instead of red and black. Cool again. Crisp stock with awesome springs. Cool x3. Fugly back design and finish. Darn. Oh well. What are you going to do. Can’t perfect everything. 1985. 24 years. Good card technology/engineering back then. Someone bring it back please. Another deck for the collection. Promotional propaganda I suppose.

–Kudos ♪♫

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