Potter & Potter Auctions is pleased to announce a 411-lot sale to be held on Thursday, Feb. 19, starting at 11 a.m. EST. The auction will be presented live at Potter & Potters gallery in Chicago, Ill., as well as livestreamed on the companys website at www.potterauctions.com. Contact the auction house directly for more information. The expected top lot is a deck of James Y. Humphreys Seminole Wars playing cards, estimated at $5,000 to $7,000. These were printed in Philadelphia around 1819. The courts are engraved, hand-colored, full-length portraits. The Jacks are Indian chiefs, the Queens are classical goddesses, and the Kings are American presidents. The decks card backs are decorated with dots and asterisks. The deck is housed in a contemporary leather card box with mother of pearl counter dials. These were featured on the Life magazine cover of its May 30, 1955, issue. A copy of that publication is included with the lot. A deck of A. Dougherty Murphy Varnish Transformation playing cards, estimated at $3,000 to $5,000, is a well-illustrated deck printed in New York around 1883 and doubles as an advertising tool for Murphy Varnish. The back of the cards are various shades of green and illustrated with the Murphy Varnish chariot. The deck is housed in an antique burned wood box. According to Potter & Potters experts, this is one of the best and most desirable American transformation decks. A 1980s-era 12 pack of Jerrys Nugget playing cards will be estimated at $1,500 to $2,500. The cellophane wrapped decks include six blue and six red backs in their original white carton. Among the playing cards in the auction, the James Y. Humphreys Seminole Wars deck stands apart both for its rarity as early American card-making and as political memorabilia commemorating the Seminole Wars, according to Joe Slabaugh, Potter & Potter Auctions director of cataloging. For more information, visit www.potterauctions.com.