Saddam Playing Cards

[Retired W4]

A little something I picked up at an estate sale a while ago. Gemaco playing cards featuring Saddam Husayn Al-Tikriti and 51 of his top henchmen. I'll probably give them to the next guy who comes into the gun show with a Desert Storm hat on.

 

[WardenRoss]

I've got an unopened set of those.

SOMEWHERE but who knows where.




EDIT: I did run across a few unopened sets of these.

 

[Retired W4]

I've got an unopened set of those.

SOMEWHERE but who knows where.




EDIT: I did run across a few unopened sets of these.

Good old Fulton County, and the city of South Fulton. Do the cards picture the victims as a reminder?

 

[WardenRoss]

Good old Fulton County, and the city of South Fulton. Do the cards picture the victims as a reminder?

Actually they were passed out to the incarcerated as an incentive award.

Many inmates are indigent and can't buy cards at the commissary.

The hope was that an inmate might recognize something familiar (various pics on the cards) and would trade information for various considerations.

Information is power. Always for sale.

IF it checks out.


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[Chuck Edwards]

A little something I picked up at an estate sale a while ago. Gemaco playing cards featuring Saddam Husayn Al-Tikriti and 51 of his top henchmen. I'll probably give them to the next guy who comes into the gun show with a Desert Storm hat on.

They were passed out during Iraqi Freedom in '03 IIRC. I was in Tikrit until June of that year, when I was transferred to Afghanistan.

 

[Rustyt1953]

In high school I lived near the United States Playing Card Company.

During WWII they donated playing cards to the Red Cross to use in care packages for POWs.

If you soaked the cards in water they would separate revealing maps of the surrounding countryside.

Clever and effective.

 

[Rudi]

Those are pretty cool.

 

[TX-Dennis]

I have a set of the Desert Storm cards - if I can remember where I put them, that is.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

My brother-in-law was a Tow rocket "Rocketeer" in the 1980's, they had playing cards of tanks and APCs to learn friend from foe. I believe in WWII there were Airplane cards too.

Ivan

 

[Imissedagain]

Those might be called, a marked deck.

I gave a marine electronics tech buddy,
a set of marked Bee cards, back in '83,
that I marked in the early '70s, for a
Gaming shop in NYC, founded in the late 1800s,
A few days latter, he still couldn't find the marks.
Everyone in the shop, had a go at them, and still
couldn't find the marks.
Unsealing the bricks and each deck, then resealing,
is another skill.
The ink man, was most important.

Pic of Austrian cards from the late 1800s.
Not Texas Hold'em.

 

[Rammer Jammer]

I've got a set of those unopened stored somewhere on my property.

 

[Smoke]

I used to have the Soviet vehicle recognition deck. Actually, I might still have it but I never play cards.