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Ace Of Spados Analysis

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Star... JetStar
By Lee Asher with help from Christina Lopez

Stephen Rister & Christina Lopez with the special deck in question.

Bond ... James Bond. Anything sounds slick when you say it like Sean Connery. Right? For example, say this out loud in your best Scottish accent, Cards ... Playing Cards.

It's even cooler when you actually spot a deck of cards in a Bond film. It almost confirms something we all already know; pasteboards are hip and stylish. And while Q hasn't invented anything subversive with fifty-two pieces of paper and two jokers yet, we can only continue to hope.

For now though, let's just relish together in the fact that James Bond has featured several different types of playing cards on the silver screen throughout its long illustrious franchise. The aim of this piece isn't to catalog every deck the MI6 …show more content…

In all seriousness though, this Ace is the key to telling Christina Lopez what she has in her possession. Subsequently, I replied to her with the following, "After seeing the Ace of Spades, I can say without a doubt, this deck was manufactured by the United States Playing Card Company in Cincinnati, Ohio. The spade found on the Ace is a stock image which USPC used on many of their decks in the past."

Our exchange intrigued me enough to look for the StarJet deck in Goldfinger. I watched the entire movie until the end, trying to spot the cards. Sadly, I didn't catch a glimpse of them at all. I wanted to see them, I really did. So it pains me to say but there isn't any proof that the deck Stephen Rister & Christina Lopez own was in Goldfinger. At this point, it's all conjecture.

Or... Maybe, and this could just be a conspiracy theory, Her's Majesty's Secret Service politely asked the editors of Goldfinger to cut the deck from the film? Could our proof be sitting on the cutting room floor? If you know James Bond, then you'll know MI6 works in mysterious

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