Lisa Myobun
Hi folks! I just came across a hoi polloi tarot, without a box and with a little white booklet unlike any I've seen… The cards look and feel like 1970s cards, and the set comes complete with everything I've seen in 1970s-1980s editions: i.e. Two title cards and the four blanks... but it also came with a brown cardboard blank that seems like it protected the LWB. So everything seems exactly like what you'd expect with the 1972 brown "treasure chest" edition – or the 1973+ oblong pink box Reiss games edition … but here it looks as if the deck was sold on its own without a box, with the LWB tucked in with the cards... in addition: the LWB indicates the publisher as "Bell Publishing" and the distributor as "Crown Books."
Any sense of where this edition fits into the deck's history?
Any sense of where this edition fits into the deck's history?