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Tarocchi Visconti di Modrone (Cary-Yale) from Il Meneghello
Osvaldo Menegazzi, the artistic genius behind Il Meneghello, has once again created a beautiful facsimile of an historic tarot deck. This deck, commissioned by the Duke of Milan, Filippo Maria...
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Avondo Brothers Addendum
I got very excited when I saw this deck (I Tarocchi Serravalle, published by Avondo) in the Belgian Tarot Museum’s video on Facebook. I thought Avondo might still be in business and printing...
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The Cartomancer Autumn 2015 Issue
The second issue of this beautiful quarterly magazine just arrived in my mail box. I thoroughly reviewed the initial issue here, so this time I’ll just run down my favorite articles. The feature...
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52 Plus Joker: A Card Collector’s Club
I’ve just discovered an association for aficionados of antique and collectible playing cards called 52 Plus Joker – The American Playing Card Collector’s Club. (How about a tarot club called 21 Plus...
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The Three Soprafinos
Tarocchino Lombardo, the long out-of-print soprafino deck published by Il Solleone, fell into my hands recently. This gave me an opportunity to compare it with soprafino facsimiles by Lo Scarabeo and...
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The Spanish Captain in the Vandenborre Deck
Question: Who is the Spanish Captain, and what’s he doing in a tarot deck? The Short Answer: He’s a character from the Commedia dell’Arte who substitutes for the Papesse in a type of 18th-century...
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The Reader’s Digest Capek Tarot de Marseille
I associate the Reader’s Digest with seeing copies in a basket in my grandparents’ bathroom. Tarot just doesn’t seem to be aligned with the Reader’s Digest’s market niche; so I was intrigued when I...
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The Cartomancer Winter 2015
The third issue of The Cartomancer just landed in my inbox, and it’s a beauty. My favorite section contains luscious full-page layouts of decks. I love the black background that intensifies the colors...
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A Jumbo Tarot de Marseille
I’ve been wanting an oversized Tarot de Marseille for a long time but wasn’t sure one even existed. When someone on Facebook posted a link to such a deck on Amazon, I clicked the “buy now” button...
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The World in Play: 15th Century Playing Cards at The Cloisters
Luxurious playing cards from the 15th and early 16th centuries, including two tarocchi decks, are on exhibit at the Cloisters in New York City until April 17, 2016. This is a unique opportunity to see...
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The Cartomancer Spring 2016 Edition
Congratulations to Jadzia and Jay DeForest, Bonnie Cehovet, and everyone else involved with this beautiful publication. The latest edition of the Cartomancer celebrates their first anniversary of...
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Noblet vs. Noblet
Historic deck aficionados now have two versions of the legendary Noblet deck to enjoy. The only original in existence resides at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. The late Jean-Claude Flornoy’s 2007...
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Tarocchi Perrin 1865
Giordano Berti, who brought us the historically important Vergnano and Sola Busca decks, has done it again, producing a small print run of a virtually unknown deck. The Tarocchi Perrin, originally...
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Mutus Liber: The Bookstore of the Museo dei Tarocchi
The Museo dei Tarocchi’s new online bookstore makes it very easy to order their books and decks using Paypal. I celebrated their grand re-opening a few months ago with my usual lack of self-restraint...
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The Visconti Sforza Tarocchi by U. S. Games
U.S. Games Systems has just reissued their facsimile of the Pierpont Morgan Bergamo Visconti Sforza Tarocchi, originally produced in 1975 and still in print. They’ve added bonus cards with portraits of...
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The Cartomancer Magazine Summer 2016
The August 2016 edition of The Cartomancer contains two weighty, serialized articles, as well as the usual gorgeous artwork and an intriguing range of topics. The article that anchors this edition for...
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Tarocchi Fine dalla Torre
The Museo dei Tarocchi near Bologna, Italy has given us many highly creative art decks. Now they have produced an historically significant bolognese tarocchi based on an original that rests in the...
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Tarocchi Orientali Foudraz
A collector recently discovered a trove of uncut sheets of tarot and playing cards that have been sitting in Turin’s archives of since the mid-19th century. Giordano Berti has given new life to one of...
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A Fifteenth Century Flemish Hunting Deck
While 15th-century Italian aristocrats were commissioning gilded and hand-painted tarot cards, aristocrats further north were doing the same with regular playing cards. The Metropolitan Museum of Art...
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Zoni Tarot de Marseille: Big and Small
I’ve just acquired the tiniest deck in my historical facsimile collection — a miniature version (1-1/8 x 2-¼ inches) of Il Meneghello’s reproduction of a TdM printed in Bologna in 1780 by Giacomo Zoni....
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