Dougherty 1883 Murphy Varnish Restoration. KS

[chas0039]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1500444958/1883-murphy-varnish-transformation-playing-cards-r/?ref=kicktraq

Interesting restoration deck, although almost no pictures of the actual cards or the name of the printer, however he mentions Bee stock in the graphic.  Just emailed USPCC.

[Justin O.]

This is about all there is on there for the cards

[chas0039]

Hopefully, he will add more details.  They look interesting.

[Don Boyer]

This is actually a rather famous deck - it appears still on the cover of the Hochman's Encyclopedia!  The "Murphy's Varnish" deck is the name I know it by - but I don't know the Hochman number for it.

[Lee Asher]

This is actually a rather famous deck - it appears still on the cover of the Hochman's Encyclopedia!  The "Murphy's Varnish" deck is the name I know it by - but I don't know the Hochman number for it.

Murphy's Varnish is the Hochman as A1.

[chas0039]

Thanks.  That gave me enough of the images to clinch the sale.  Curious as to why Scott left off any detail.  Maybe he assumed we already knew all the images.  Hope this one does better than the Euchre deck.  I would have liked that one.

Oh, the cover of Hochman's!  That explains why they looked familiar.  Added another deck.

[chas0039]

Michael Scott has posted that he would like to hear from backers on what to put on the 3 extra cards that he plans to include in the decks.

My expertise is limited so I would appreciate it if people here would give some input.  The project is barely $1200 away from funding and it looks like one of the most interesting projects I will be getting this year.

Thanks

[luisecova]

Hello,

I wonder which option backers from this community are selecting. Any thoughts? I'm very new at collecting cards.

Thanks,

[Don Boyer]

Hello,

I wonder which option backers from this community are selecting. Any thoughts? I'm very new at collecting cards.

Thanks,

Well, there are a number of possibilities.

The most common uses for "extra cards" (cards in addition to the 52 found in all standard decks) are:
- jokers
- advertisement cards
- cards that are blank on both sides, blank-faced with the card back on one side or double-backed cards with the card back on both sides (used as either a cut card, a gaffed card [for magicians, usually associated with a specific category of tricks], or as a substitute for a damaged or lost card)
- credits/acknowledgements cards
- index cards describing some of the deck's imagery
- "history" cards with a brief story about the deck itself or the deck's subject matter
- more sophisticated or complex magicians' gaff cards (some common gaffs of this type would be cards that appear misprinted, cards that are misindexed, cards that have one value/suit on one half and a different one on the other half [divided either horizontally or diagonally from one non-indexed corner to the other] and cards with extra or insufficient pips).

For a deck of this type, it's unlikely that any gaff cards would be created - it's not that kind of deck.  As a historical reproduction, a history card, a credits card or an extra joker would be the most likely choices.