gregory
As far as I know your friend's deck is older (I believe the numbers are print runs - though I may be wrong here...)
No copyright does suggest 1971 or so printing.
No copyright does suggest 1971 or so printing.
You have the 11th printing of the LWB and your friend has the 8th printing. (The lowest number listed is the printing number.) As print run info isn't available for the cards themselves, I think the LWB printing info is the best source of info.Inside cover of LWB:
numbers - 20, 19, 18, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11
I am assuming the above numbers will tell me what printing I have?
Another deck that a friend has - everything is the same as above, only the numbers in the LWB are:
10, 9, 8
Can I tell which deck is older? Are either of these decks the original 1971 printing? How exactly can I tell, so that I know with future purchases?
You have the 11th printing of the LWB and your friend has the 8th printing. (The lowest number listed is the printing number.) As print run info isn't available for the cards themselves, I think the LWB printing info is the best source of info.
Define "original 1971 printing". I have a Weiser edition with no printing info in the LWB, which was printed by USG. I believe that is the first printing of the yellow-box deck. The lowest LWB printing number I have for a USG edition is 7, so I don't know if there is actually a USG edition with a LWB with printing number 1.
Rodney