Eric Fosquel, who runs wonderful before Mario (and has He wrote an excellent book of the same name)It has one of the best Nintendo item collections in the world. Although lately He managed to get hold of something that was special even by his standards: a few packs of Nintendo playing cards from the 1950s, depicting the company’s hometown of Kyoto.
“I can’t overstate how excited I am to find these seventy-year-old Nintendo cards featuring Kyoto in the 1950s,” Fosquel wrote enthusiastically on August 7. “In all my years of collecting, these are the only copies I’ve come across.” To put this into perspective, Writing on his blog Fosquel adds that this is the first time he’s done this previously Saw cards – all printed in English –For sale after spending”Over Twenty Years of Searching for Ancient Nintendo Objects”.
After publicly expressing reluctance to open packages – this is valuable, and if remaiClosed will keep this value –Fosquel finally decided to open one and leave the otherThis will allow him to see what the cards inside look like while keeping the second deck closed.
Unfortunately, hThis initial excitement did not last long.
“However, when I carefully removed some of the packaging, I quickly discovered that all the cards were perfectly fused together,” he is writing. “They were pressed together for so long, perhaps in hot and humid conditions, that the ink on all the cards stuck them together perfectly. The stack of individual cards turned into one solid brick. Images printed on cardstock, which contain relatively large amounts of ink, may also have contributed.
Note that these cards ancientand thus lacked the plastic or chips that we normally associate with playing cards that have been produced over the past several decades. These were made entirely of paper, so when he says they are fused, he means it. It’s no longer a card game, but it’s expensive Paper pillow.
Upon examining the second packaging, Fosquel discovered that these cards had suffered the same fate, and although some suggested “put the packages in the freezer for a while”, or “put them in a ‘sweat box’ as stamp collectors use”, he said darkly this is “These packages, unfortunately, bypass all of these methods and will remain embedded forever.
Shame! The only consolation that can be found is that even the chests are beautiful, and that Voskuil walked away at least holding a card, as one of the two tiers had a card sample attached to the back of which could be removed.
You can see more images of cards and learn more about why they are important in before Mario.
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