Bicycle Playing Cards Bicycle Playing Cards Bicycle Playing Cards is a brand of playing cards. Since 1885, the Bicycle brand has been manufactured by the United States Printing Company, which, in 1894, became the United States Playing Card Company (USPCC) of Cincinnati. "Bicycle" is a trademark of that company. The name Bicycle was chosen to reflect . Bicycle is a standard 52-card deck of red and black colored cards. Also known as the French deck, each card may have one of the four suits: spades, clubs, diamonds, and hearts. The numbers on the cards range from 2 to 10, then proceed onward to
International Playing-Card Society of standard playing-card design. The IPCS was founded in 1972, as "The Playing-Card Society", with a journal titled "The Journal of the Playing-Card Society". In May 1980 the names of the society and the journal were changed, becoming "The International Playing-Card Society" and "The Playing-Card". A newsletter, which became known as "Playing-Card World", was formerly published as a supplement to the journal, running for 80 issues from 1975 to 1995. Notable members of the Society are or have included: International Playing-Card Society The International Playing-Card Society (IPCS) is a non-profit organisation for those interested in playing cards, their design, and