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Forcolar Playing Cards

I'm in the spendthrift buying and hoarding stage of card collecting after slowly building up prudently and frugally. As such, cards such as the Forcolar brand instantly attract me since they seemingly have relative low value to most people and they went defunct rather quickly with their employed gimmick. Being colorblind it works for me. Not in the way that one might think because I can clearly see color, just in the wrong perspective due to faulty cones in my peepers. As such, I've always seemed to look at the things that others don't, though this is seemingly not a condition of the malfunction of colorblindness. I have two brothers and know quite a few people who have various color spectrum issues and none of them are quite as zany as I am. I suppose that much of that aspect has something to do with being in cramped quarters with 5 brothers and basically having little to no privacy for the entirety of my childhood. So I seemingly purposely grasp onto things that nobody else is interested in and make it a mania for myself. So be it. Forcolar, spelling as it's shown here, is the perfect hook for such an endeavor. Now to get me some actual cards. Until then, here's a newspaper advertisement for the cards:

New York Daily News, June 13, 1948

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