It finally arrived.
Copyright Monumenta Longobardica - Bergamo, 1974.
Booklet in Italian.
In the section of the booklet where the cards are explained, the Tower and the Devil section made references to Kaplan:
"Da: I Tarocchidi Stuart R. Kaplan, Mondadori."
The Tower has the large people falling of it. And the Devil has two individuals who are almost as large as the devil on both of his sides.
Which according to this site posted kindly in our previous post
http://www.felicityk.info/tarot/visconti/index.html
is the same as the 2nd ed USG 1975, printed by Grafica Gutenberg.
The size is smaller than the Cary-Yale (1984 USG, CT, printed in Switzerland), and about the same as the spruced up version in Mary Packard's Golden Visconti-Sforza. The card stock is... I have no basis of comparison other than the 1984 USG Cary-Yale and it feels a little thinner, but I can't be sure.
The Longobardica card stock feels less smooth, more paper-y.
The back is brick red.
What I would love to know now is the comparison of card stock between Longobardica 1974 and USG 2nd ed 1975
Card stock aside though, the faux old book box makes it the only deck I can put on my bookshelf along with other books
This is a great way to store a reference deck in my opinion.