rwcarter
About a month ago, I bought a deck off eBay. The seller didn't know much about it, actually listing it as an "Antique French Sybille Grimaud Fortune Tarot Cards RARE". I've spent more than a few hours today trying to figure out what this deck is. I scanned in a card and the card back and tried Google image searches to no avail. I tried searching the Oracle forums here at Aeclectic. I tried all kinds of Google web searches to no avail until I finally found an image on Trionfi. There the deck is listed as "J. C. Jegel Fortune Telling 1870" and is associated with the name Alexander Sukhorukow.
My deck is very similar to the deck there, but there are some major differences:
It came in a 2 part plastic case that has
"FORTUNE-
TELLING
FT17"
typed (like on a typewriter!) on a label on the top part of the case. Judging by the fading of the ink, written in pen at 3 different times are "A.S.S.", "(BIELEFELD)" and "74". I know ASS is a publisher.
I've attached scans of one of the cards and the card back. I have no idea if this is a Lenormand variant, a Kipper card variant or some other form of 32 card deck. I would appreciate any info folks can provide about this deck.
Thanks,
Rodney
My deck is very similar to the deck there, but there are some major differences:
- the images in my deck are brighter
- my deck has square corners where the deck there has rounded corners
- the green back is lighter on my deck
- the deck on trifoni is listed as being 52 x 82 mm while my deck is 57 x 89 mm
It came in a 2 part plastic case that has
"FORTUNE-
TELLING
FT17"
typed (like on a typewriter!) on a label on the top part of the case. Judging by the fading of the ink, written in pen at 3 different times are "A.S.S.", "(BIELEFELD)" and "74". I know ASS is a publisher.
I've attached scans of one of the cards and the card back. I have no idea if this is a Lenormand variant, a Kipper card variant or some other form of 32 card deck. I would appreciate any info folks can provide about this deck.
Thanks,
Rodney
