Cannot tell if it's a real deck

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 15 Jan 2003, and now archived in the Forum Library.

tarotbrat	15 Jan 2003
Hi Everyone! I saw a site that had three images of the tarot that I thought are really cool, but I have no idea what deck it is. I tried sending an e-mail to the owner of the site but she said that her son created the page a couple of years ago and she would get back to me but a couple of days have passed and still have not heard a word. I pasted a link below and hope that someone might be able to tell me if this is an actual deck or just drawings. Thanks. http://members.aol.com/pagetarot/Tarot.html?hop=3etech.pagetarot.

Insomnia Turtle	15 Jan 2003
I'm not an expert on Tarot Decks, but judging from the border I would think that they are only drawings, not real Tarot cards. Although they are very fun images, borders which are inverted curves would not make a really practical deck. I hope this is of any help.

tarotbear	16 Jan 2003
The person does say that she reads with the Rider deck, so I am guessing that the three cards at the top of her site are not any deck at all, but some artist's interpretation of the cards.

Musie	16 Jan 2003
It's pure computer clipart. The artistic style ... is typical of public domain/computer cd clipart. I bet if you try a big free clipart site and type the words tarot, you'd probably find a few images like art.com. Especially if the son did it. He probably didn't want to scan his mother's deck for pictures.

Silverlotus	16 Jan 2003
I found the clip art from this page, and a couple other cards, on Microsofts clip art site. It you have MS Office or Word or Works, you can download images from the site using the Clip Organizer. I think the images are only in MS format (wmf) on the site, since it is an MS site. :) I found: - High Priestess - Empress - Emperor - Lovers - Chariot - Hermit - Justice - Temperance - Star - Judgement - World (?) Sadly, there was not the whole set of Majors avaliable on the site, and the file names are just sort of random. Hopefully, the whole set is out there somewhere on the internet.

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