Norwood #85, c.1909

[kevork]

For posterity's sake: https://www.wopc.co.uk/usa/the-united-s ... norwood-85

Someone on Facebook recently posted that they acquired one, potentially aside from the other 9 known to exist. These courts look incredible.

[george]

I second that, those courts are wonderful. The Starling article is a great read.

In the article he references that it was a 12 color printed deck. Does anyone have a guess how they got to the count that it was 12 colors on this deck? Careful counting and a shark eye / magnifying glass?

On the sheets I've collected I can count the swatches along the edge, typically the four CMYK and any additional spot colors, but that's not happening with the 115+ year old deck of which there are only 9!

Related... I've wondered before how Rainbow decks are printed, with 52 shades of a back design. I never see alignment issues, indicating to me that each back is printed a solid single color (no blending / halftone /etc). Surely we're not able to buy a 52 color printed deck for just minimal increase over the standard 4 color process.

Enough printing talk...

[Swiski66]

Have they reprinted this deck? Love the vintage court artwork!

[Evilgamer]

someone put some time into those.

[Eric Lee]

Dang, those are really beautiful. Those are what you call custom courts!
Anyone know Will Roya personally? Perhaps he may be willing to get the Norwood deck printed.

[Harvonsgard]

Does anyone have a guess how they got to the count that it was 12 colors on this deck?

I suspect lithography print and that with 12 colours. If you use a linen tester you can indeed count the colours.

Related... I've wondered before how Rainbow decks are printed, with 52 shades of a back design. I never see alignment issues, indicating to me that each back is printed a solid single color (no blending / halftone /etc).

I doubt they print rainbow decks with anything other than cmyk.