Le Fanu
I just had to tell someone!
I started buying tarot decks in the very early 80s and the interest came and went with varying intensity. But I was aware that on the few occasions that I tried to locate my old tarot decks in my parents house, I could just never find them! Each time I went to their house and had a bit of time, I had a look and it seemed they had just vanished off the face of the earth. I searched everywhere, with increasing frustration. Then I discoved AT and realised that some of the decks Id had were classic, sought after decks, which niggled even more!
However, all I wanted to say was that at last - finally - when my parents were redecorating last week, they found them. Stuffed behind a bookshelf. In a place I would never have looked. Im just so thrilled!
We're talking here about vintage copies of Cagliostro, Tarot Balbi (unused!), Red Owl and Blue Owl Lenormand with verses in English, my first ever 1JJ Swiss, nice and well-thumbed, OOP Prediction tarot, OOP Magickal tarot, Royal Moroccan Fez, Ansata, plus my bag of runes. And many other decks (over 20 ) which I had learnt with when I was 13 or so... A real treasure trove of unlaminated, vintage decks!
It's a story with a happy ending. Anybody have any similar stories? Lost decks, rediscovered. Or lost decks which you never recovered from losing??
I started buying tarot decks in the very early 80s and the interest came and went with varying intensity. But I was aware that on the few occasions that I tried to locate my old tarot decks in my parents house, I could just never find them! Each time I went to their house and had a bit of time, I had a look and it seemed they had just vanished off the face of the earth. I searched everywhere, with increasing frustration. Then I discoved AT and realised that some of the decks Id had were classic, sought after decks, which niggled even more!
However, all I wanted to say was that at last - finally - when my parents were redecorating last week, they found them. Stuffed behind a bookshelf. In a place I would never have looked. Im just so thrilled!
We're talking here about vintage copies of Cagliostro, Tarot Balbi (unused!), Red Owl and Blue Owl Lenormand with verses in English, my first ever 1JJ Swiss, nice and well-thumbed, OOP Prediction tarot, OOP Magickal tarot, Royal Moroccan Fez, Ansata, plus my bag of runes. And many other decks (over 20 ) which I had learnt with when I was 13 or so... A real treasure trove of unlaminated, vintage decks!
It's a story with a happy ending. Anybody have any similar stories? Lost decks, rediscovered. Or lost decks which you never recovered from losing??