Steampunk playing cards

Theory11's $6 Steampunk Playing Cards are manufactured in concert with the American Playing Card company on custom bronze-effect paper stock. The cards feature machinelike illustrations and are really rather well done.

Steampunk Playing Cards - theory11.com (via The Dieline)

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Do they shuffle themselves?
http://twitter.com/ShirtNinja K. Williams

Looks more dieselpunk than steampunk …
http://egypt.urnash.com Egypt Urnash

Looks like the only thing “steampunk” about them is the backing art and the cool case they come in? What little glimpses that promo had of the faces looked like any other deck of cards I’ve ever seen, except for the Aces.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFCuE5rHbPA
ifriit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFCuE5rHbPA

*cough*

EDIT: Whoops, looks like I wasn’t the only one thinking this.
- http://egypt.urnash.com Egypt Urnash
  
  *snicker*
jtj608

Don’t you mean the United States Playing Card Co.?

http://www.usplayingcard.com
- http://randymurrayonline.com/ Randy Murray
  
  I’ve been in the Civil War era United States Playing Card company’s factory in Cincinnati. It’s very cool and more than a little true steam punk. They even have a playing card museum, but I’m not sure it’s open to the public any more. That’s a shame – it’s really fascinating.
  
  Try, sometime, and look up how Bicycle playing cards used as POW escape maps . . .
http://www.andrewmayne.com Andrew Mayne

Theory11 does some great stuff.

You should check out their charity: water cards they’ve released to support clean drinking water (100% of the proceeds go to this cause): http://www.theory11.com/playingcards/charity-water.php
http://artdonovan.typepad.com Art

First mistake: If it’s really Steampunk, it should not have the actual word, “Steampunk” written on it. (that’s so cheesy!)

Secondly, if the corporate heads were insistent upon using the word, they should spell it correctly. It’s NOT two separate words.
http://evilbobdayjob.blogspot.com/ Deidzoeb

Funny, I remember reading in punk zines when people argued about what constituted authentic punk, how to subdivide it into narrower categories within punk, complaining about other people posing like punks or failing various tests of authenticity. Wonder how long steampunks will be at this stage.

Y’all go ahead and nuke the steam shark. I’ll be safely hiding inside this diesel fridge.
BrotherPower

If I could draw, I’d totally do a hand-tinted engraving of Professor Fonzarelli jumping his dirigibike over a copper-clad steam-powered shark.

Get on that, Internet!
Spriggan_Prime

He’s wearing sneakers. Faux-pas, or Steam-pas.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/ Stefan Jones

Needs a bird on it.
http://twitter.com/britt_in_situ Britt L.

The juxtaposition between the ridiculously dramatic music in that video and the relatively boring deck of playing cards had me simultaneously turning down the volume, rolling my eyes, and clicking the X.