ART DECO 1930s PLAYING CARDS ~ ELEPHANT GIRAFFE ~SEALED
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This is a two deck set of 1930's Art Deco styled playing cards in their great original box. The box is a muted deep blue with silhouettes of jungle animals in twilight that appear to be frolicking in the jungle among tall coconut laden palm trees. T are two elephants, two giraffes, and two monkeys in the trees. Although they are in silhouette, they all have bright white eyes with black irises. Inside this conservative two toned box t is no dominant matching blue, but two spectacularly colored decks that are mostly goldleaf. One deck has an elephant with a monkey above him in the palm tree throwing coconuts down on him, and the other, a giraffe with one leg in the air bent at the knee with his head in the top of the palm tree. The elephant is bright orange with an expressive vivid white eye with little black iris, and t is a little dark blue but mostly turquoise in the leaves of the palms. The giraffe is black and white. Both decks have a stylized swirl of yellow at the base with a black wavy border on the bottom edged in a white wavy narrow line above it. The trunks of the palms are sectioned in alternating black and white like the sections of bamboo. The center of the decks, which amounts to about three quarters of each deck, is bright vibrant goldleaf, and the sides of the decks are also edged in bright goldleaf. The decks are
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