This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 3/17/2022
Globe Playing Card. Co. 4-11-44 Playing Cards. New York & Chicago, ca. 1890s. 52. An almost identical Ace can be found with an imprint for the Card Fabrique Co., as well as for Globe Playing Card Co., Middletown, OH. Backs depict a racist caricature of a Black man in a rocking chair; “4-11-44” being a reference to numbers supposedly favored by African Americans in lotteries. Hochman L22a.