Old style Studs that have been discontinued. They are now on the endangered list of extinct playing cards that many magicians used and loved. They are of outstanding quality with marvelous backs. Manufactured by The U.S. Playing Card Co. in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Bicycle Standard Gold Bordered. USPCC International Edition.

2009 edition (year in the bottom)

Bicycle Standard Gold Bordered. USPCC International Edition.

2009 edition (year in the bottom)

Memento Mori by Chris Ramsay and Murphys Magic.

Killer Bees are the mutant hybrid of timid European honey bees and their African cousins.  Like all superhero stories, the Killers were introduced to Brazil by mad scientists to help re-populate their diminishing Bee population.  But no-one could contain them... In 1957, 26 swarms escaped quarantine and declared war on the western hemisphere.  Danger lurking in the skies, these villains will stalk their victims for up to 1/2 a mile..  We wanted to capture the darker bodies of these cold-face killers in our deck. Creating a harsh black back with toxic-waste yellow honeycomb spilt on the back.  The black faces display custom pips and hold a sinister simplicity. Like something you'd expect to see on a discarded barrel of methylamine.  Killer Bees are the result of an unsanctioned lab experiment when toxic-waste spilled into a delicate hive of Honey Bees. 

 

scans of every card can be seen at http://www.marytcusack.com/maryc/decks/html/Cards/KillerBee.html​

Daniel Madison: The Black Dealers were a limited run created as my own private reserve, to be personally shared with my friends and used as my regular performing deck. They were produced not to be offered for sale - with the few that I left in the Ellusionist warehouse to be given away in Special Promotions and here in the Rewards Store. When initially designing the Madison Dealers, the borderless design was an imperative element for me, not for the single advantage it lends to certain gambling sleights, but also because of how beautiful the deck looks when the design bleeds the side of the entire deck. When creating a new edition of the Dealers, I didn’t just want to offer a new color, I wanted to do something different. I was very intrigued to see how the Dealers would look with a nice thin border, and when the test deck was printed, I simply had to get these out there.

A limited Edition of Rounders Series

Second series of Madison in Collab with Ellusionist after Dealers. Included a Joker gaff revealed & a double back

There are three different types of Bee Wynn playing cards in existence: Signature, Icon and Encore. The first type - Signature cards - are standard Bee Casino diamond-baked cards. These cards have the word \'Wynn\' written on them, and are available in Red, Blue and Brown. They were used on gambling table at the Wynn\'s casino in Las Vegas. The second - Icon type of Wynn’s decks - have a solid back color (white-bordered) with the Wynn\'s \'W\" icon printed on either end. They were also used on the gambling table at Wynn casino. Icon Wynns were available in Red

There are three different types of Bee Wynn playing cards in existence: Signature, Icon and Encore. The first type - Signature cards - are standard Bee Casino diamond-baked cards. These cards have the word 'Wynn' written on them, and are available in Red, Blue and Brown. They were used on gambling table at the Wynn's casino in Las Vegas. The second - Icon type of Wynn’s decks - have a solid back color (white-bordered) with the Wynn's 'W' icon printed on either end. They were also used on the gambling table at Wynn casino. Icon Wynns were available in Red

Conjuring Arts is very pleased to introduce the culmination of years of research and development. The Erdnase 216 deck. Relatively recently one of our board members found what might be the only existing example of the Bee 216 deck. This was printed by the New York Consolidated Card Company for a period of time around the year 1900, and although the back design appears in catalogs and illustrations, no other complete deck is known. What is even more exciting is that our deck is in mint condition. What this means is that for the first time we can determine exactly what the cards that Erdnase used felt like! For example, the deck is very thin (52 cards is 14.50 mm!) and very smooth (Cambric finish wouldn’t be used until 1910!). Fittingly, Erdnase wrote, “For superior work the cards should be new, thin, flexible and of best quality.” As many know, Conjuring Arts has produced more than a dozen decks over the last couple of years and each deck has had variations as to production methods, materials and finishing. This is an ongoing effort to create an amazing deck of cards. Most of our previous releases used the Casino grade of paper that is quite a bit thicker than the retail stock. This allowed us to create an amazingly sturdy and durable deck that quickly became favorites of many of the world’s top card men. Last fall Conjuring Arts started some new experimentation, taking our research in a completely new direction. We did three major test runs at great expense which allowed us to successfully create what we proudly call our Erdnase Finish. This new finish is the thinnest and smoothest card that can be produced at US Playing Card Company. When measured by caliper a 52 card deck is merely 14.5 mm. This combined with a smooth finish (just as all the cards were in Erdnase’s time) creates a deck that feels as close to the 1902 Bee as is possible to make today. The only real difference is that our new reproduction is a bit slipperier than it’s 1902 predecessor. Today the manufacturing process uses a plastic material in coating the paper and 100 or so years ago this was more of a varnish that can no longer be used for cards. The back design of the Bee 216 is another very interesting thing. Anyone who has studied Erdnase sufficiently has noticed that the illustrations clearly indicate that he was using Bees. This can be seen by the Ace of Spades in Figure (101). On even closer examination of the illustrations, you can see in Figures (see Fig. 75, for example) that the back design is not redrawn but just a squiggle is used. This is very possibly just a shortcut by the illustrator, and this has been our opinion for many many years. But two years ago, on discovering the Bee 216 deck, a new theory arose. What if this design, which matches M. D. Smith’s “squiggles”, was actually the type of card Erdnase used at the time the book was illustrated? We found it intriguing enough to warrant our latest release of the Erdnase 216 deck. A faithful reproduction in both design and feel of what New York Consolidated’s Bees looked and felt like in 1902. A very limited edition has been produced, evenly split between a tan and green back color.