Vintage Leisure Hours Faux Book Playing Card Case Squeezers Jokers Deck Set For Sale

This is a vintage faux-book double playing card case housing a vintage deck of \"Squeezers\" playing cards.

• The \"Book\" Case: Made of pebbled faux-leather over wood/metal with gold-gilt tooling on the spine. It is styled as a miniature leather-bound volume titled \"Leisure Hours\" by the fictional author \"A. Bundance\" (a humorous Victorian/early 20th-century wordplay on \"Abundance of Leisure Hours\"). These novelty cases were typically built to hold two bridge- or poker-sized decks on a library shelf or game table.

• The Playing Card: A Joker from the historic Squeezers line, originally patented by the New York Consolidated Card Company (NYCCC) and later continued under the United States Playing Card Company (USPCC). The illustration shows a jester turning a printing or wine-style press to literally \"squeeze\" suits and cards out of a tub, referencing the brand name. Based on the typography and \"Reg. U.S. Pat. Off. / Made in U.S.A.\" mark, this deck dates to around the 1930s–1950s.