The Butler Tarot - Limited 1st Edition.

[The 78th Fool]

Hi chaps,

Just thought I'd let you know that I've just reached an agreement with Jeanette at Tarot Garden who will shortly be offering my deck for sale in a limited 1st edition of 100 copies.

I'll apologise in advance for the fact that price wise it will be in the '5 star boutique' bracket - I'm having to 'hand produce' on a close friend's printing/laminating facilities and hand trim the cards individually, hence 5 - 7 hours work per deck for either myself or my poor mate who's beginning to wonder what he's got himself into!!!

If you get the chance, have a look - you can view the whole deck and a fair amount of background information at

www.butlerart.co.uk/tarot

Each of these decks will come in its own drawstring bag, with a title card and a signed/numbered edition card. The back design featured on the first edition will be different from the one featured on the website. I havent included a little white book to keep the cost down and also because I plan to publish the card meanings on the website in the near future. They are already available at

www.divinationsystems.com

I'll post more info as and when I have it. It would be great to know what you think of the deck.

Chris. xx

[Cerulean]

I also went to the free reading site and was thinking of inquiring about the deck.

Thanks for your recent posts about wands as air and swords as fire...I started rethinking different versions of suits and elemental correspondences.

But how fun, some background information:

http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/cards/butler/index.shtml

Take care,

Regards,

Cerulean Mari

[baba-prague]

Congratulations! It's so good to know that the deck will be "real" soon. This is very good news.

As for the price, well of course I don't know what price you intend, but I do think that in general, people understand that a very limited edition deck usually has to be much more expensive so I don't think you will get negative reactions about that.

All best wishes with it, please keep us informed of the progress.

[WolfSpirit]

Congratulations, that must be great to have your deck for sale
A deck of which only 100 copies exist will surely attract the real collectors - and it is a beautiful deck.
I especially love the Tower and the Moon.

[Lee]

Congratulations, Chris! Your deck has a wonderfully unique style, and it's great that it will soon exist as a physical deck. Best of luck with it --

Lee

[Chronata]

I am so happy for you!
It must be wonderful to be able to have your work in the shuffleable form!

I really love your photo collage style, and I am sure that all the hand work you are doing to make your decks will be well worth it!

Congratulations!

[The 78th Fool]

Thanks everyone for your encouragement!!

However, I must admit that after having cut out several decks by hand already, I'll never want to see another of my own cards by the time I've done the full hundred decks!!!!!!!

At the moment, there's a shipment winging its way to Jeanette in the States. I'll let you know when she's sent me confirmation of arrival and the retail price has been confirmed.

Signing off now - to go and chop some more cards!!!!

Chris. xx

[Jeannette]

As usual, I've been crazy-busy here -- so I apologize to Chris for not letting him know that I received the Butler Tarots on Monday. I haven't had time to make my own sample scans yet, but y'all know you can see the cards on Chris' site.

Thanks, Chris! I look forward to featuring your wonderful deck in the 5-Star section of our Boutique, hopefully very soon!

-- Jeannette
The Tarot Garden

[The 78th Fool]

Just logged on to Tarot Garden this morning and there's my Empress card staring out at me from the homepage!!!!

I didn't know how I'd feel when the deck was finally released but now I feel quietly elated - The deck is finally 'real' and available after a two year journey

If you want to have a look, it's at:

http://www.tarotgarden.com/boutique/...w_title=butler

Chris. xx

[rabble]

wow,.... congratulations, I bet that feels really awesome!