baba-prague
As there was recently quite a lot of talk about the techniques used to make old cards, I thought that this might be of interest. Yesterday we found these cards are on display in the Town Museum in Rumburk (Rumberg in the German version - it is right on the border). They are clearly very old. Slightly frustratingly however, no-one seems sure how old. The very charming museum director didn't exactly know. But presumably that's in part because dating cards IS difficult as many patterns went on being used for so long (edited to add - there were no tax stamps or anything of that sort that could help determine a date). If anyone here can suggest a date, I'd be grateful.
One thing that's interesting is the shape - very tall and thin as these older cards tend to be. They are also quite large - you can see a normal modern-sized standard playing card beside them for contrast. These are big files - sorry, they take a while to download, but necessarily so to show the technique.
What else can I say about them? Well, in reality they are more faded than the photo implies. They appear to be on thin card - almost paper. By what we could see close-up they are done with stencils - but of course without putting them under a magnifying glass it's hard to be sure.
Interesting I hope.
http://www.magic-realist.com/rumburk/museum_collection/tarot_cards3.jpg
http://www.magic-realist.com/rumburk/museum_collection/tarot_cards4.jpg
One thing that's interesting is the shape - very tall and thin as these older cards tend to be. They are also quite large - you can see a normal modern-sized standard playing card beside them for contrast. These are big files - sorry, they take a while to download, but necessarily so to show the technique.
What else can I say about them? Well, in reality they are more faded than the photo implies. They appear to be on thin card - almost paper. By what we could see close-up they are done with stencils - but of course without putting them under a magnifying glass it's hard to be sure.
Interesting I hope.
http://www.magic-realist.com/rumburk/museum_collection/tarot_cards3.jpg
http://www.magic-realist.com/rumburk/museum_collection/tarot_cards4.jpg