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• • SCARCITY: 9.4/10
• • CARD CONDITION: (Subjective) Low- Mid Grade + / Gameplay Used / Creasing / Heavy Surface Soiling / Surface Marks or gameplay surface Wear / Edge Soiled & wear & abrasions / All highly acceptable for its rarity.
• • SIZE: Poker
• • CARD/QTY: 52 + Joker & Ad Card
• • CARD BACK: Monarch Green
•  • Color Border: White
• • MFG: USPCC
• • COUNTRY: US
• • BOX; ARCHIVAL ONLY
• • AD CARD: YES
•  • JOKER: Yes (RARE)
• • BRAND: Monarch
• • YEAR: c1895
• • DESIGNED BY : MONARGH GYGLE MFG. GO.

Monarch Bicycle playing cards are an early example of a non-standard design deck used for bicycle advertising.

• The company advertised itself as “The Monarch King of all Cycles” with a lion's head motif inside a bicycle wheel. The four Kings depict Tom Cooper (1874-1906)

• In the 1890s , he was a champion bicycle racer and early auto racing ‘speed king’ who unfortunately died in a tragic auto accident. The four Aces are decorated with large bicycle wheels.

(INFO) The original box (not included) has a scripted message of Murray's Patent Finger Recess" referring to Samuel J. Murray who worked for Russell & Morgan until 1886

• Monarch Bicycle” advertising playing cards manufactured by U.S.P.C.C. in 1895.

• The queens have the inscription “Copyright 1895 by W. M. Morrison” around the bottom the oval. W. M. Morrison was a known photographer.

• The four queens feature the famous actress Lillian Russell (1860–1922). We don't know why the four jacks contains donkeys.

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