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Here are two advertising decks, where the heads of the K's, Q's and J's have been replaced by animals. In both decks the designers have managed to create 12 different courts with minimal adjustments to a basic design.
In the designs of the Camel Joe deck there are only two basic elements: the camel head (+ ear) and the hand with a pack of Camel. The head can only be reversed (mirrored), but the pack of cigarettes is used in three positions. The K's and J's have the familiar Camel Joe mustache, but the Q's have been clean shaven. The hair of the J's has been colored.
| The Camel 75th Birthday deck was printed by Hoyle and published by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. in 1988. |
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It could have been made by the same designer: the Flamingo Hilton deck has 3 basic designs of the flamingo beak and eyes. By reversing, exchanging and sticking mustaches to them, these 3 basics end up producing 10 different faces (of the 12, the queens can only be reversed). Here also the J's have colored hair.
| The deck was published for the Flamingo Hilton in Laughlin. Printed by the USPCC, probably in the mid 1990's. |
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