Collector finds valuable Nintendo relic ruined by time

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Nintendo is the company that has the longest history in the video game industry. Precisely next September he will be 133 years old. Naturally, it has not always been dedicated to the video game industry, but instead began in the production of playing cards or playing cards. These products are very old, so many have been lost over the years. One of the oldest was found by a collector, but was sadly ruined by time.

First, you should know that this story was made possible thanks to Erik Voskuil, the company’s main collector, specialized in its ancient era, when it produced toys, various utensils and playing cards, which he documents in your beforemario site.

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Collector found 2 old Nintendo playing cards

Precisely, Voskuil made a recent discovery of 2 very old decks, which for the first time in his 20 years of collecting got in his way. Naturally, Voskuil took advantage of the opportunity and got the 2 cards.

These products, the Kyoto Souvenir Playing Cards, are not only highly valued because they are decks of old playing cards produced by Nintendo before it was mainly in the video game business (dating back to 1950), but also because they are themed decks with beautiful illustrations of elements of a Kyoto of that time. In total, there were 50 priceless images that showed the image that Japan promoted to international tourists, when this activity was very rare in which people within the country participated (national tourism).

It’s common in collecting that unopened, new, or unused objects are more valuable, which is why Voskuil was very excited, but the new state of the products ended up being a negative for the internal product.

Voskuil hesitated between opening the packages or not, knowing that as super vintage collectibles they would be more valuable closed, but he wanted to discover the photos of Kyoto on the letters.

The boxes that contained the cards showed some signs of wear naturally due to the passage of time (these are 70-year-old products), but the interior was completely new, since the cards were sealed by a plastic sheet.

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Old Nintendo playing cards were ruined

Voskuil, considered more of a historian than a collector, decided to open the packs, but was sadly disappointed to find that the cards were glued together, making the deck actually a single block of paper.

The collector assumes that the cards were stored in conditions of high humidity and heat, which, with a little pressure, would have been enough for the ink on the cards (produced using methods more traditional than those now known) to serve as glue to unite them.

Some fans have suggested placing the letters in a freezer or in “sweat boxes” to try to peel them off, but Voskuil resignedly thinks that his case “is beyond these methods and that [las cartas] they will stay together forever.” However, he hopes to see a new issue that has the letters loose.

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