Abrac
I've recently developed a strong connection with this deck and have been surfing for any info I can find about it. There seems to be several different versions of it, all with different names that sound and look sorta the same, but are not. So I thought this might be a good opportunity to start a thread and see if I could find some help sorting it all out.
The deck I have now I just received. It's a 2000 Lo Scarabeo/Llewellen edition, ISBN: 0738700185. It seems to be the most popular one at the momemt, I guess because it's the most readily-available. It's really nice, but it's not the one I thought I was getting. A lot of the reviews I read before I bought it said something about a reddish-brown back, but this one I got has a greenish back with angelic and animal figures on it. It seems the version with the reddish-brown back is an earlier, 1995 version. I'm not sure if it's even still in print. US Games also has a 1995 version with a different ISBN number (0880799528).
I found this site which shows the whole deck:
http://www.rusjoker.ru/WWPCM/decks05/d02394/d02394.htm
It shows the Scarabeo '95 version having a yellow and black box, while this site:
http://taintedtarot.co.uk/VAULT/SBdeck.html
shows a '95 Scarabeo version with the reddish-brown box that is popular now.
Gina M. Pace, in her review of the Sola-Busca:
http://www.wicce.com/solabusca.html
mentions something about Scarabeo changing their card size in '98. Maybe they changed the appearance of some of their boxes too.
Is there anyone out there who knows what I'm talking about and can help a guy out??????
-fof
The deck I have now I just received. It's a 2000 Lo Scarabeo/Llewellen edition, ISBN: 0738700185. It seems to be the most popular one at the momemt, I guess because it's the most readily-available. It's really nice, but it's not the one I thought I was getting. A lot of the reviews I read before I bought it said something about a reddish-brown back, but this one I got has a greenish back with angelic and animal figures on it. It seems the version with the reddish-brown back is an earlier, 1995 version. I'm not sure if it's even still in print. US Games also has a 1995 version with a different ISBN number (0880799528).
I found this site which shows the whole deck:
http://www.rusjoker.ru/WWPCM/decks05/d02394/d02394.htm
It shows the Scarabeo '95 version having a yellow and black box, while this site:
http://taintedtarot.co.uk/VAULT/SBdeck.html
shows a '95 Scarabeo version with the reddish-brown box that is popular now.
Gina M. Pace, in her review of the Sola-Busca:
http://www.wicce.com/solabusca.html
mentions something about Scarabeo changing their card size in '98. Maybe they changed the appearance of some of their boxes too.
Is there anyone out there who knows what I'm talking about and can help a guy out??????
-fof