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Gibson Playing Card Co

Published May 04, 2015 Updated June 21, 2022

Gibson Playing Card Co., Cincinnati and New York.

1930 USA Gibson Playing Card Co

Gibson Playing Card Co

The Gibson Playing Card Co., Cincinnati and New York, started producing playing cards in c.1930. It was part of the Gibson Greeting Card Co., Cincinnati, whose history can be traced to 1850, when George Gibson and his family emigrated to the United States from Scotland, where Gibson had operated a lithographic and copperplate engraving business. However, the playing card division had a shorter lifespan and was eventually sold to the United States Playing Card Co.


Above: Gibson slims playing cards. Court cards here. All images courtesy Matt Probert.


REFERENCES

Dawson, Tom & Judy: The Hochman Encyclopedia of American Playing Cards, U.S. Games Systems Inc., 2000

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By Matt Probert

Member since March 02, 2012

I have adored playing cards since before I was seven years old, and was brought up on packs of Waddington's No 1. As a child I was fascinated by the pictures of the court cards.

Over the next fifty years I was seduced by the artwork in Piatnik's packs and became a collector of playing cards.

Seeking more information about various unidentified packs I discovered the World of Playing Cards website and became an enthusiastic contributor researching and documenting different packs of cards.

I describe my self as a playing card archaeologist, using detective work to identify and date obscure packs of cards discovered in old houses, flea markets and car boot sales.

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