Cerulean
This is a very unusual historical pack that is sold from the R.S. Somerville site:
http://www.playingcardsales.co.uk/cards/moreimages/13641_8_tar_j_gaudais.jpg
Stuart Kaplan's Volume I describes the majors on page 158-59:
--Double-ended majors and courts divided by a diagonal bar running 45 degrees from left to right and short vertical lines.
--Numbers of Majors are in Arabic numerals and there are no titles.
Other notes reworded from Kapan's description:
0. Fool is bearded, smiles at butterfly
1. Magician holds a flower pot and table has ace of clubs.
2. Junon (shades of Swiss!) is elegant woman with a peacock
3. Empress is a regal figure on her throne with imperial shield and orb
4. Emporer is a royal figure with an imperial orb.
5. Jupiter (Swiss again!) is a bearded figure who holds a bolt of lightning and an eagle spreads his wings.
6. Lovers included blindfolded Amor/Cupid and three figures, one of them has a crown.
7. Charioteer is crowned.
8. Justice is crowned, carries tablets of law.
9. Hermit is elderly with a lantern
10. Wheel has sphinx on top, human falling on left and a tiger rising on the right (I cannot resist a tarot with a tiger!)
11. Lady Strength deftly handles her lion
12. Hanged Man is one left-footed double-ended figure (the cards are double-ended)
13. Death is the reaper
14. Temperance is an angel pouring liquid
15. Devil is bat-winged
16. Falling Tower is struck by lightning from the Sun
17. Lady Star pours fromm a large urn
18. Moon has two dogs that bay at the cloudy sky and Moon
19. Sun has an angelic face and Adam & Eve
20. Angel blows his horn and faces of the risen turn up to look at him.
21. Female World has a modest sash.
I think it is very different and look forward to seeing the differences in the reproduction...hope it is the same quality as the Spain - Fournier that I received earlier this year...
Cerulean
P.S. I fell into joy when I saw the Ace of Batons...with Cherries? Apples? It might be similar to one Spanish-style double-figure playing card deck I saw at the Maritime Museum at Monterey, CA. on the lower level...or maybe I just fell into like the more I saw and read about these images.
http://www.playingcardsales.co.uk/cards/moreimages/13641_8_tar_j_gaudais.jpg
Stuart Kaplan's Volume I describes the majors on page 158-59:
--Double-ended majors and courts divided by a diagonal bar running 45 degrees from left to right and short vertical lines.
--Numbers of Majors are in Arabic numerals and there are no titles.
Other notes reworded from Kapan's description:
0. Fool is bearded, smiles at butterfly
1. Magician holds a flower pot and table has ace of clubs.
2. Junon (shades of Swiss!) is elegant woman with a peacock
3. Empress is a regal figure on her throne with imperial shield and orb
4. Emporer is a royal figure with an imperial orb.
5. Jupiter (Swiss again!) is a bearded figure who holds a bolt of lightning and an eagle spreads his wings.
6. Lovers included blindfolded Amor/Cupid and three figures, one of them has a crown.
7. Charioteer is crowned.
8. Justice is crowned, carries tablets of law.
9. Hermit is elderly with a lantern
10. Wheel has sphinx on top, human falling on left and a tiger rising on the right (I cannot resist a tarot with a tiger!)
11. Lady Strength deftly handles her lion
12. Hanged Man is one left-footed double-ended figure (the cards are double-ended)
13. Death is the reaper
14. Temperance is an angel pouring liquid
15. Devil is bat-winged
16. Falling Tower is struck by lightning from the Sun
17. Lady Star pours fromm a large urn
18. Moon has two dogs that bay at the cloudy sky and Moon
19. Sun has an angelic face and Adam & Eve
20. Angel blows his horn and faces of the risen turn up to look at him.
21. Female World has a modest sash.
I think it is very different and look forward to seeing the differences in the reproduction...hope it is the same quality as the Spain - Fournier that I received earlier this year...
Cerulean
P.S. I fell into joy when I saw the Ace of Batons...with Cherries? Apples? It might be similar to one Spanish-style double-figure playing card deck I saw at the Maritime Museum at Monterey, CA. on the lower level...or maybe I just fell into like the more I saw and read about these images.
or really, SEVEN new decks! 