While on ebay finding some Aladdins (hate they quit making them so I bought 12 which will be my last time I will buy them and will only buy bikes and aristocrats) anyways I stumbled upon this. It is not me nor am I affiliated with it. I just thought that this was ridiculous but anyways thought it made for a great discussion with you guys.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-Tiffany-an ... 58921466e1

Cool you could always get them and work on your Mercury card folds and torn and restored effects.

Yeah I was thinking of buying them and using them just as junk cards and making gaffs. I just hope no one is crazy enough to buy them.

Perfect deck to learn how to spring the cards!

On a more serious note, this is really cool! If I wasn't a poor college student....er, if i were rich, I would buy them.

I don't think that if I had the money I would even buy them UNLESS I had Copperfield's money and museum then maybe but then I think it's just paper and ink. But it is a cool item.

Almost as good as http://www.ebay.com/itm/Wilbur-Corn-Fla ... 500wt_1314

I totally understand where your coming from--I have always been really into history/ museums/ history of magic...I think it would be cool to own a piece of history like that. Again, that's only if i was really rich...but it is really cool IMHO.

Who in the edited has time to look for shapes in cornflakes? No wonder they need money.

Pretty sure it's a joke.

Woah Woah Fellas....This is not a deck of cards being sold to a bunch of young kids desperately hoping to increase their "coolness" factor by owning a "Rare" deck of cards that was printed two years ago. This truly is a rare deck of cards produced over 100 years ago. This is meant for serious collectors, not magic boy wannabees. When White Centurions, a deck made in what? 2008-2009? are going for $150 bucks. That is worthy of a bit of ridicule. That is a deck that currently has an over inflated value. There is quite a big difference between decks that have been "Hyped" into a high price, versus decks that are truly valued in the antique collectible market.

Now I wouldn't drop that kind of money on a deck, even one that is 100 years old, but serious antique collectors do and they are the market that sets the price of that deck. There is a single Steamboat 999 card that is on display in the Titanic Museum that would probably fetch a few thousand dollars if it went up for auction.

And I thought my deck that I got 31 years ago when I was a kid was old. Still in great shape also, along with my "The Amateur Magician's Handbook" and other books. Some antique collectors would pay this price, but I wouldn't. I have enough cards as it is, let alone a set that I could not or should not touch. To me they are just overpriced cards.

Hmm Thinking of Card Warp, nice and colorful!!

For Torn and Restored, BAYBEES!

Actually it's cool how the pips are incorporated in to the pictures.

$800? Pssh, chump change compared to these: