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10 Vintage Playing Card Decks That'll Challenge Your Poker Face

With the Blitz fresh in their minds and Pearl Harbor dominating airwaves, Americans had good reason to be afraid of looking up. Much like with Victory Gardens, rationing, and the Hollywood Canteen, playing cards became another front where the Allies could wage war.

Thanks to the U.S. Playing Card Company, you could tell if the planes high in the sky or the ships along the coast were friend or foe. With these historic cards, you weren’t just playing for chips, but for your life, too.

Collector Opens 1950 Nintendo Playing Cards Pack, Shocked By Vintage Card's Shabby Condition

Opening card packs are most exciting, especially when these packs are limited edition and old. Whether it be Pokemon cards, Magic the Gathering, or Yu-Gi-Oh!, the rarer the pack, the more thrilling there is in unveiling its content. Opening card packs also has its risks. There is always a good chance that the cards in that pack have little value.

This collector may have given us the most tragic card pack opening of all time. In a report from Kotaku, Erik Voskuil has recently opened a couple of packets of Nintendo playing cards from the 1950s. These vintage Nintendo playing cards featured art depicting cultural symbols from Kyoto, Japan.

'Before Mario' Collector Owns World's Largest Collection of Vintage Nintendo Products

Erik Voskuil prides himself as the owner of the world's largest private collection of Nintendo products from post-WW2 to the 1980s. This is not any ordinary collection from a Nintendo hobbyist.

Voskuil's collection comes with a foreword from one of Nintendo's original game designers Satoru Okada. Okada also designed hit games and toys for Nintendo. Some designs from him include the Game & Watch, Metroid, and the Gameboy.

This collection from Voskuil is featured in a blog called "…

Newly-found vintage playing cards shine a light on post-war occupied Japan

“It is with the children of any foreign country that the American soldier first makes friends.” A U.S. soldier hands out candy to Japanese children early on in the Allied occupation of Japan. Screencap from “Japan: Our Far East Partner Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. U.S. Army Audiovisual Center. (ca. 1974 – 05/15/1984).” Public domain, hosted on YouTube by Nuclear Vault.

A chance find in Japan provides a glimpse at how children experienced the country's post-war occupation.

Author and broadcaster Matt Alt tweeted on November 21 that he had discovered a set of karuta (playing cards) dating back to the Allied occupation of Japan, likely just following the end of the World War II. He told Global Voices that he found the set while browsing at the popular Kobo-ichi monthly flea market in Kyoto,

Used in menko, a traditional Japanese card game played by children, the vintage playing cards feature what was arguably the most prominent figure of daily life in early post-war Japan: the American soldier.

Originally from the United States, Alt is the former host of popular NHK television program about…