Andrew Dougherty
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13: Some North American Cards
I deal with some of the US makers in more detail on other pages, but here is a brief introduction.
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42: Andrew Dougherty
Andrew Dougherty was one of the biggest American card-makers in the 19th century.
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A. Dougherty’s Triplicate Recreation
A recreated of the original 1876, No. 18, Triplicate deck by A. Dougherty by Michael Scott in 2014.
![Andrew Dougherty 1848-1930 Andrew Dougherty 1848-1930](http://www.wopc.co.uk/core/cache-wopc-thumbs/boxes/andrew-dougherty-1850.0a7e75b0.jpg)
Andrew Dougherty 1848-1930
Andrew Dougherty was born in Donegal in Northern Ireland in 1827. He started his playing card business in New York in 1848.
![Andrew Dougherty c.1850 Andrew Dougherty c.1850](http://www.wopc.co.uk/core/cache-wopc-thumbs/var/www/wopc.co.uk/htdocs/images/boxes/andrew-dougherty-1850.0a7e75b0.jpg)
Andrew Dougherty c.1850
The idiosyncratic courts used in this deck were used by several other U.S. manufacturers, including Crehore and Hart, and continued into the early 1900s in Faro decks.
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Bertrand Domec page 6
Playing Cards imported into Argentina by Casa Bertrand Domec de Fagoaga y Fernández (Sucesores) Bs. As., c.1935-50.
![Corner Indices Corner Indices](http://www.wopc.co.uk/core/cache-wopc-thumbs/countries/usa/dougherty/indicator-patent-1883.9746462d.jpg)
![Cruiser Playing Cards Cruiser Playing Cards](http://www.wopc.co.uk/core/cache-wopc-thumbs/var/www/wopc.co.uk/htdocs/images/boxes/cruiser.0a7e75b0.jpg)
Cruiser Playing Cards
Dougherty's ‘Cruiser No.96’, first published c.1897, was dedicated to the U.S. Navy..
![Excelsior Excelsior](http://www.wopc.co.uk/core/cache-wopc-thumbs/countries/usa/dougherty/excelsior-0.6aadce83.jpg)
![Great Mogul Playing Cards Great Mogul Playing Cards](http://www.wopc.co.uk/core/cache-wopc-thumbs/brands/mogul/cover.26d95c81.jpg)
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Illuminated Playing Cards, c.1865
Facsimile edition of Andrew Dougherty's Illuminated deck, c.1865, published by U.S. Games Systems, Inc., and described as 'Civil War Illuminated Poker Deck'
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Indicator No.50
No.50 appears at the bottom of the Ace of Spades and the cards have corner indices and miniature suit symbols in the corners.
![Ivorette Ivorette](http://www.wopc.co.uk/core/cache-wopc-thumbs/boxes/ivorette.c55a317d.jpg)
Ivorette
Dougherty was at the forefront of innovation, adding Best Bowers and then Jokers, rounded corners and various types of indices, or indicators, to his cards.
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Squeezers No.35
By 1877 the New York Consolidated Card Co's "Squeezers" were a great success on account of the indices in the corners which enabled the cards to be fanned.
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Tally-Ho
The earliest Ace of Spades had the Centre Street address and the Jolly Joker was used until the “Tally-Ho” Joker was introduced in the early 1900s. The brand has seen only minor variations over the years.
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Triplicate No.18
Dougherty first secured a patent for “Triplicates” in 1876, a novel type of indices with a miniature card in the top left-hand corner (and bottom right).
![Union Playing Card Co. Union Playing Card Co.](http://www.wopc.co.uk/core/cache-wopc-thumbs/countries/usa/union-pcc-aces.167ff18f.jpg)
Union Playing Card Co.
Not much is known about this early manufacturer who is reckoned to have traded between c.1860s-1890s.