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Vintage 1946 & 1950 Bee No. 92 Club Special Playing Cards – 4 Deck Lot
Offered is a very nice group of four vintage Bee No. 92 Club Special playing card decks, manufactured under The N.Y. Consolidated Card Co. name.
All four feature the classic Back No. 67 design marked:
EXTRA SELECTED FOR CLUB SPECIAL
The group consists of three red-backed decks and one blue-backed deck, all retaining their original matching Bee No. 92 Club Special boxes.
Dating
The Ace of Spades production codes visible on the four decks are:
M3308 – 1950
H3371 – 1946
M3313 – 1950
H3320 – 1946
The dating is additionally supported by the surviving federal playing-card tax-stamp evidence. The M3308 deck retains a 1 PACK tax stamp, while the H3371 deck retains a partial tax stamp. The other two boxes show evidence where their original stamps were removed.
The federal 1 PACK stamp dates to the 1940–1965 tax-stamp period, which resolves the repeating production-code letters to the 1946 and 1950 production cycles represented by these decks.
Contents
All four decks have been individually counted and each contains all 52 standard playing cards.
One of the four decks also includes its Joker and original instruction card. The other three decks contain their complete 52-card standard decks but do not include Jokers or additional/instruction cards.
Accordingly, there are no missing standard playing cards from any of the four decks.
Details
Brand: Bee
Model: No. 92 Club Special
Back: No. 67
Manufacturer marking: The N.Y. Consolidated Card Co.
Dates: 1946 and 1950
Quantity: Four complete 52-card decks
Colors: Three red / one blue
Condition
All four decks are vintage opened examples with their original boxes. The boxes remain attractive and display well, with expected age toning, edge and corner wear, and other minor storage and handling wear as shown.
One box retains a substantial portion of its original 1 PACK federal tax stamp, another retains a partial tax stamp, and the remaining two show evidence of their previously removed stamps.
The cards retain strong printed color and the classic borderless Bee No. 67 diamond back design. All four standard 52-card decks are complete.
Please examine all photographs carefully for the exact contents, box condition, tax-stamp remnants and overall condition of each deck.
An appealing matched group of mid-century Bee No. 92 Club Special playing cards, comprising two 1946 and two 1950 production examples in both red and blue.
Sold together as one lot of four complete 52-card decks, as found.
