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Enough dogs for now. Here's one that we forgot to take along in the first round. It's the "Elsie the Cow" deck! A famous dairy advertising deck, in which the heads of the courts have been replaced by a bull, a calf and of course a cow named Elsie. We only show these two suits, because in all the suits the K's and Q's have the same head and design. Only the Jacks have two different calf heads, one for the black suits and one for the red suits. So the 12 courts were created with only 4 different designs. The center design is the same on the K's and Q's and the usual attributes have been left out. Only the Queens hold a flower.
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the Borden Inc. in 1993.
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And there is another deck with cows, from England, advertising butter. It's the center design, that hints towards the international pattern. Although the yellow background may be called functional (we're advertising butter here) it doesn't do the pattern much good. There are some attributes in the designs, but they all refer to butter. In this deck only 6 designs were used for the 12 courts. No mirroring or other tricks, the designs as below are repeated in the red suits. All aces show the same hoof pattern across their suit signs.
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The deck was published in the UK by Van Den Berg Foods Limited with the slogan "I can't believe it's not butter" in the 1990's. There are 52 cards and 4 jokers. |
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