Western Playing Card Co. (Q5128)

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Q5128

Also known as

Western Press · Logan Printing House · Midland Playing Card Co. · Inter-Ocean Playing Card Co. · M. B. Sheffer Card Co. · Max B. Sheffer · Western Playing Card Company · Western P. & L. Company

active in

Chicago (1918–1926), Kartenhersteller
Racine (from 1927), Kartenhersteller
Racine (1940–1940), Kartenmacher
Poughkeepsie (1940–1940), Kartenmacher

inception

1918

Described in

• A Catalogue of the Cary Collection of Playing Cards in the Yale University Library vol. 1–4 (1981)
• Kaplan: The Encyclopedia of Tarot, Vol. II (1986)
• Hochman, Encyclopedia of American Playing Cards

Source

• Kaplan: The Encyclopedia of Tarot, Vol. II (1986)
• Hochman, Encyclopedia of American Playing Cards

Packs

Name	Image	Suit system	Type/pattern	Date	Stamp
Standardkarten (Western Playing Card Company, Racine / Poughkeepsie, um 1940) (Q16185)		German-suited		1940
Tarock (Western Playing Card Company, Racine / Poughkeepsie, um 1940) (Q16184)		French-suited		1940
»Green River Playing Cards« (Western Playing Card Company, Racine, um 1926) (Q16176)		French-suited		1926
»Rockefeller Center« (Western Playing Card Company, Racine, 1932) (Q16177)		French-suited		1932