I see what guess means. Sorry, I wanted to say "find", "info".
Didn't know that kind of mix could happen. Too bad there is no info on the generic one. Anyway, I like it more than the uspcc one.
Smaller printing companies came and went like ocean waves and still do to this day. it's tougher to keep track of them - tougher still if the printer is out of the US, especially in countries like China that have so many printers creating and selling cards in the US.
In the US, with USPC being the 800-pound gorilla in the market, in addition to the company's acquisitions of any and every US company that's even close to being a competitor, they're the company that we have the most knowledge about - and even that knowledge is spotty and incomplete because they kept some lousy records over the years.
The biggest reason for the lousy record-keeping, aside from the company itself being acquired by other companies over the last half-century or so, is the fact that playing cards are and always were considered ephemera - things that were created to be disposable, which we not meant to last long periods of time. As playing cards became cheaper and cheaper over the years (adjusted for inflation), people didn't worry about keeping decks in pristine condition - they wore them out, tore them, bent them, got them dirty from handling, then REPLACED them with the very same product, a new pack of playing cards. In that sense it was the same as comic books, magazines, newspapers, concert flyers and tickets, movie posters and so on - people never thought they had value until nostalgia set in, and by then few examples of the stuff they liked and used when they were younger still existed. It's why Action Comics #1 sells for the low five figures and why the Bicycle Victory Series decks are among the most expensive and toughest-to-find decks out there.
So, just as the products themselves weren't considered of high value at the time they were made, neither were the records of them, so much of the company's history is lost to time and neglect. Now that people actually recognize the existence of intellectual property and have been able to digitize most of what we create, detailed records and information on modern products, no matter how mundane or ephemeral, are more easily stored, preserved and accessed.
Wow, I'm in a real tangential mood today, hunh...
I actually have a t-shirt this reminds me of. In large print, it reads "Try not to let your mind wander." Below it in small print, it reads "It's too small to be out on its own."
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