Freddie said:
Boy, your Thoth collection will be cross with you over this lol...I wouldn't want Uncle A. upset with me lol..
Oh I think he'd understand. He would understand that this is part of the very root of tarot, the essence, and if I could catch him on one of his "exasperated-with-Lady-Frieda-after doing-the-Magus-Seven-times" days, he'd most definitely understand.
The arguments just get better. The whole tarot renaissance people talk about probably wouldn't have happened without this deck. Plus the fact - as has been mentioned - that this is the deck Kaplan stumbled across at that toy fair in Germany in the late 60s.
It really must be one of the most significant decks in the history of tarot in terms of sales, the first really mass market tarot. I say this because I see this on ebay much more than the 70s RWS decks (though not
quite so much as the Jonathan Dee tarot...)
Well, I have cast my vote...