Actually first called De Lands Dollar Deck, after the creator Theodore De Land, from the time it first appeared on the market in May 1914 until the end of 1918. SS Adams then started publishing the deck in early 1919, with the title Automatic Playing Cards. It was sold under that title until sometime in 2009 when Magic Makers bought SS Adams and changed the title to DeLand’s 100 Dollar Deck. The faces of the cards are standard modern now. Besides being stacked, marked and stripped, the back of each top card shows you what the bottom card is, the locations of all the cards of a specific suit, how many cards have been cut off the deck, how many cards are left on the table after the deck is cut, and much more. The clocks on the card backs carry a lot of info. This particular deck has 1941 for the cancellation date on its tax stamp, but the 10 cent tax stamp was only used until 1940 so the deck was actually made earlier.