Are the Bicycle Standard Cards a one way back design!?

[JakeTay10r]

I FOUND THE ONE ONE ARISTOCRATS!!!!!! Whew. That took awhile.

 

[JakeTay10r]

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[Jason England]

That's all I managed to find out as well (that the flaw(mark) existed). Cool story, thanks for sharing.

I reached out to a friend that I suspected might know or remember the location of the mark. He pointed me to a written source. The mark is gone now, but here's essentially where it was:

Look at the back of a Bicycle Rider back with the short ends pointing towards and away from you. Look at the angel riding the bicycle that is upright. About a centimeter above his head is a "spade-shaped" design element with what looks like a flower petal or branch in it. To the left and right of the base of that spade-looking thing, are three very, very small marks. They look sort of like tiny blades of grass. On the right-hand side, the smallest of those things was little more than a dot on the Ace of Spades. It was larger (although still tiny) on all of the other cards.

Thanks to L.P. for pointing me in the right direction.

Jason

 

[Lyle Borders]

Thanks, Jason! Very kind of you to dig into that for us. That is a cool little bit of hidden history. I'll have to look for it if I run across an old enough version of that deck.

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