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 1954, became the United States Playing Card Company (USPCC), now based in Erlanger, Kentucky. "Bicycle" is a trademark of that company.
The name Bicycle was chosen to reflect the popularity of the bicycle at the end of the 19th century.[1][2]
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- ^ Knapp, Jim. Vintage Back Designs of Bicycle Playing Cards Archived 2019-01-28 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 28 March 2017.