The Golden Nugget Survey

[fredv]

Hello,

i'm a quite new playing cards' collector and i quickly fell in love with the cards from the 70s.
Jerry's Nugget are nice but expensive, Dunes are really nice looking but also really rare, then there are the Golden Nugget.
I have decided to have a look at these playing cards because of the big number of colors and a wider availability.

The problem is that there are many colors, different versions, different quality and nobody really knows what is the rarest color or when each color was produced. Is the red more common than the black one ? Is it possible to have a brown one > 1970 ?

You can find good articles on this forum, on other forums and on several web sites, but no article can tell you exactly the beginning or the end of the production of a specific color.

Then i had the idea of a survey. If a big number of Golden Nugget owners could tell the color, tax stamp, and year of their deck, maybe we could have statistics about these wonderful cards.

If you want to be part of this survey, feel free to send me via private message the list of your Golden Nugget deck with :

color / type of tax stamp (old style or new style) / type of deck (Downtown or 2nd And Fremont or Atlantic City) / letter and number on the Ace of Spade (if the deck is not sealed)

If i can get enough information or at least some people are interested, i will start a website to try and create the most complete documentation about Golden Nugget.

Thanks in advance to be part of such an interesting survey for vintage playing cards' lovers

[Fred]

Don't think you'll find much luck looking for information here, Fred. Try actual vintage forums. Good luck Fred.

Hi Fred bye Fred.

Regards,
Fred.

[Don Boyer]

Don't think you'll find much luck looking for information here, Fred. Try actual vintage forums. Good luck Fred.

Hi Fred bye Fred.

Regards,
Fred.

Hey, Fred - we DO have vintage collectors around here.  They're just not in the majority.

Fredv: have you considering trying the best possible source of information about the decks?  I don't mean USPC - they won't reveal information about their clients and the contracts they've signed.  I mean the actual casino, the Golden Nugget.  Since they ordered the decks in the first place, they'd be the best possible source of information - it stands to reason, right? 

[fredv]

Hi Don,

That's a great idea, i'll try but if it was that easy somebody would probably have already done it and published it somewhere

[Don Boyer]

Hi Don,

That's a great idea, i'll try but if it was that easy somebody would probably have already done it and published it somewhere

Sure - but if everyone makes that assumption, no one would do it...

[fredv]

Well, i tried .. but got no answer from Golden Nugget Casino. Nobody probably still knows exactly what happened in the 70's there

I have made my investigation about cards. Not many answers to my survey but enough to have a few results.. see the chart below, based on collection of around 150 decks

I'll be soon starting a Golden Nugget page with information, facts and online survey .. if somebody is interested, tell me.
And of course, i'm always interested in buying decks of cards

[Don Boyer]

OK, I looked for this online and noticed it no longer exists out there, so I'll try posting it here and see what happens.  It's the one (and to my knowledge only) issue of Modern Manipulator e-magazine and it includes a two-page article on Golden Nuggets.  Never tried uploading a PDF here before so cross your fingers.

OK, it failed.  Send me a PM and I'll email it to you.

[fredv]

Thanks Don, i have sent a message.

But as i remember, i think i have already seen this article which was almost the same article as the one we can find on the net about Golden Nugget cards.

If it is the one i'm thinking about, it is a good starting point but it contains errors and it is not precise at all about years and which color for which period.

Based on my 1-month study i think i have more information than what was in the article i have read. That can't be possible, i'm sure some people know more about Golden Nugget than me Maybe they just don't want to talk to keep the secrets and sell cards at high price