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Grimaud Arnoult (Lequart).. wooOOOhoOo!!
http://en.camoin.com/tarot/Grimaud-Arnoult-Marseilles-Tarot.html
I am just tickled pink after winning one on Ebay France!!!
I have wanted a deck like this ever since I saw this post here:
http://tarotforum.net/showpost.php?p=2563911&postcount=8
(I think that one is the Lequart edition, a little earlier, before they became Grimaud. I notice a difference in that there are no Roman Numerals on that version, but mine seems to have a IIII on the side of the four of cups. Are there many other differences between the Lequart Arnault and the Grimaud Arnault?)
I LOVE the strange colour scheme.. I also like how it's described on the Camoin website: "The colours are completely eccentric and their taste is not very pleasant." lol
I thought for sure that lots of people would bid, and that it would be very expensive.. since the condition of the cards looked so good, it seems like such an interesting deck to me, and I haven't seen others for sale (or maybe I just haven't been looking in the right places?)... but I was absolutely delighted when the auction ended and I was the high bidder, and I thought it was a steal at just over $300 dollars... after all, oop Baba decks from just a few years ago sell for more.
I have never owned an antique deck before, but I've been drooling over all my historical reproductions the last few years and dreaming I might someday have something genuinely old. I'm very excited!
Since I'm having it shipped to a friend in Canada to avoid difficulties with the Uruguayan postal system, I'm not sure when mine will actually be in my hands.. maybe June or July when some of my husband's family travels and can take it back here with them.
In the meantime, I'd love to hear from others about this deck.
Does anyone here have this? Are they actually quite rare, or is it just that nobody talks about them enough?
By the production date and tax stamp, It looks to be from between 1898, and 1917... but I've heard that sometimes later decks still used old stamps.. do we have any way of knowing how long this deck was actually in print?
For those that have them.. what do they feel like, thick or thin cardstock? What are the backs like?
Has there ever been a reproduction of this deck? I couldn't find any info about such a thing, but I'm a bit nervous at the possibility of having just spent more money than I actually have on some little-known photoreproduction from the 1970s or something. It looks legit, and the seller seemed reputable, but it's the most I've ever spent on a pack of cards before.
http://en.camoin.com/tarot/Grimaud-Arnoult-Marseilles-Tarot.html
I am just tickled pink after winning one on Ebay France!!!
I have wanted a deck like this ever since I saw this post here:
http://tarotforum.net/showpost.php?p=2563911&postcount=8
(I think that one is the Lequart edition, a little earlier, before they became Grimaud. I notice a difference in that there are no Roman Numerals on that version, but mine seems to have a IIII on the side of the four of cups. Are there many other differences between the Lequart Arnault and the Grimaud Arnault?)
I LOVE the strange colour scheme.. I also like how it's described on the Camoin website: "The colours are completely eccentric and their taste is not very pleasant." lol
I thought for sure that lots of people would bid, and that it would be very expensive.. since the condition of the cards looked so good, it seems like such an interesting deck to me, and I haven't seen others for sale (or maybe I just haven't been looking in the right places?)... but I was absolutely delighted when the auction ended and I was the high bidder, and I thought it was a steal at just over $300 dollars... after all, oop Baba decks from just a few years ago sell for more.
I have never owned an antique deck before, but I've been drooling over all my historical reproductions the last few years and dreaming I might someday have something genuinely old. I'm very excited!
Since I'm having it shipped to a friend in Canada to avoid difficulties with the Uruguayan postal system, I'm not sure when mine will actually be in my hands.. maybe June or July when some of my husband's family travels and can take it back here with them.
In the meantime, I'd love to hear from others about this deck.
Does anyone here have this? Are they actually quite rare, or is it just that nobody talks about them enough?
By the production date and tax stamp, It looks to be from between 1898, and 1917... but I've heard that sometimes later decks still used old stamps.. do we have any way of knowing how long this deck was actually in print?
For those that have them.. what do they feel like, thick or thin cardstock? What are the backs like?
Has there ever been a reproduction of this deck? I couldn't find any info about such a thing, but I'm a bit nervous at the possibility of having just spent more money than I actually have on some little-known photoreproduction from the 1970s or something. It looks legit, and the seller seemed reputable, but it's the most I've ever spent on a pack of cards before.
