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German Shepherd Forcolar Canasta Playing Card Deck

With no corresponding advert I've been having an impossible time with dating my Forcolar German Shepherd set within the company's 6 years existence but having just remembered that it is also a Canasta pack and since that game only came to the United States in 1949 it likely dates to then or thereabouts. Which is consistent with the Buttreys advertisement below:

Great Falls Tribune, November 6, 1949 (enlarge)
Not that I don't trust the 1947 copyright marked on the label but I feel that they never varied from that original imprint and that any dates are arbitrary beyond their inception point. 

Anyway, a Forcolar Canasta set in November of 1949 was $1.69 for two decks. Which is equivalent to about $19.55 today.

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