Does anyone have any idea when the monarchs started getting made with the thin borders? Also if it is possible to obtain the thicker border cards from anywhere?
Does anyone have any idea when the monarchs started getting made with the thin borders? Also if it is possible to obtain the thicker border cards from anywhere?
Not from us! That seal does not exist on Monarch boxes as shipped from our warehouse. Very odd. Where did you pick those up? Is that seal under the cello? I've never seen it before. Any chance we can get a clearer photo?
// L
[Update]
Found it. Alabama charges a $0.10 tax per deck of playing cards, and they require a tax stamp affixed to each deck to indicate that this has been paid. The US Government used to do something similar (hence old tax stamps where we have simply seals today). This would likely have been afixed by the shop selling the decks.
For more info - http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/CodeOfAlabama/1975/coatoc.htm
The section on playing cards can be found at Title 40, Chapter 12, Article 2, §144
// L
My silver monarchs have a smooth red seal so i'm guessing those are thick boarders.
Since the Silver Monarchs is a white back with black line design, it's technically only a thick boarder by definition. It can never really have a thin border unless Theory11 changes the linework to push it further to the image. I'm guessing all Silver Monarchs will always be "thick borders" where as the Red and regular Monarchs, have the white line work over a solid colour with the white borders. That solid colour can expand out to help shrink the borders.
krab1
You should open them up and check them out; they're a really nice deck, but if you don't want to open them, just head over to the store section of Theory11's site and you can see pictures of the Silver Monarchs.