The judge told the jury that ‘”there could be no doubt” and Harding was duly found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging. Evidence was given by an engraver to the Stamp Office that the Ace of Spades in a pack purchased from Harding was a forgery. Harding’s premises were searched, where forged plates were found and over 2000 forged Aces found in the possession of his daughter. It was stated in evidence given in the case, that suspicion fell upon Harding when it was noticed that, despite his extensive business, his demands for Aces from the Stamp Office were small. On 21st September, 1805, at The Old Bailey, Richard Harding, card-maker of Grosvenor Square, “a genteel looking man, powdered and dressed in black” was indicted for forging a stamp on the Ace of Spades “with intent to defraud the duty charged on playing cards” and for selling cards with forged stamps. ![]() There was a high price to pay for failing to pay duty however. The Ace of Spades was stamped using a metal plate and designed to be hard to copy – hence it’s detailed features. Initially duty was paid and a random card in the pack was hand stamped to show it had been paid, but in 1765 the Ace of Spades was given a special design and designated as the card on which duty would be shown as paid. In addition he has designed posters, and collateral merchandise for movies such as Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, and Kill Bill I and Kill Bill II.You will all have probably noticed that, in a pack of playing cards, the Ace of spades is invariably more elaborate in design.įrom 1711 and right up until 1963, taxes were charged on a pack of cards. His work has been distributed internationally as part of tour merchandise, and his package design work was contracted by General Foods, and WalMart. After his self described sell out in 1992 to the design industry, he began his career in art by working first as a production, artist, illustrator, and then designer of merchandise and posters for touring rock icons which include: Eric Clapton, John Lennon (via Yoko Ono), Cream, Queen, ZZ Top, The Stray Cats, Brian Setzer and a host of others under contract with BMG and Sony Music. Prior to his art career, Dan worked at a variety of manual labor jobs from assembly line work, to steel worker, to dock worker. His article on sustainable design, and how to combat the process of creating desire when a need does not exist was published as part of a journal on new approaches to educating in the Library of Congress in 2011, and his continuing research into the neuroaesthetics realm attempts to begin the process of studying art as a science. Louis MO, and San Francisco CA in the AIGA Compost Modern Show. His “popes as candy wrappers” series was included in a group show in Rome in 2017, and he has been part of group exhibitions in Los Angeles, CA, for an underground poster art show, Denver CO, Portland OR, St. He has exhibited in a variety of traditional print, and digital mediums appearing in shows in Sofia, Bulgaria where a series of screen prints were exhibited in an International Juried Exhibition, while two of his paintings were included in Barcelona’s 2017 Exhibition. Pieces of his work Pin Ball Philosophy Series were featured in the 'New York Now' exhibition in 2015 where he depicted religious icons as the subject matter in pinball game displays. Mutato Explains it all," was published in the "International Show Against Nuclear Testing,” Catalog as well as being part of the United Nations exhibition in New York and Vienna in 2016. In that vein, his ironic pieces parodying the nuclear civil defense posters of the 1950s entitled ’Thank God for the Atomic Bomb,” and ‘Dr. ![]() Dan May’s been finding the humor in the world of power, politics, entertainment, and religion for the past twenty years in his design work for Fortune 500 companies, as well as his personal work.
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