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I was excited to finally receive this deck in the mail today, after an unusually long time in transit!
You can see some of the images here:
http://translate.google.com/transla...earch?q=gaudais+tarot&start=10&hl=en&lr=&sa=N
I could only find it mentioned in one thread in this forum, but there wasn't a lot of discussion about it.
I am wondering if anyone has this deck... I had never heard of it until I saw it on ebay, but it's quite lovely!
The cards are playing-card-sized, and pretty thin, but seem like they'll hold up well anyways.
I'm not too sure about the publisher.... there's no publisher's name, copyright date, ISBN# or anything on the box. It says, "made in Spain", but the two cards describing the deck are in French. One says it was made by Heraclio Fournier, but it seems odd to me that they didn't put their name on the outside of the box anywhere, and the box and cards seem kind of shoddy quality (the other Fournier decks and boxes that I have seem thick in comparison). I wonder if I have an unliscensed knockoff or something?
Anyways, I like the deck.... The courts are all very interesting and incredibly expressive, and the double-ended majors seem divided in half in a more aesthetically pleasing way than in some of these type of decks, where they just cut the card in half and flip it, and it really looks like it should be a full image...
I also particularly like how there are different kinds of plants shown in the floral embellishments on the pips... I can clearly see ivy, oak leaves, clover, and tulips, to name a few.
There are a lot of other interesting bits, too...
-there are stars on the 6 of cups
-there is a little crescent moon on the 7 of coins
-the king of coins holds a scroll
-the ace of swords comes out of a cloud, but the ace of wands the hand issues from thin air, floating.
-the moon is a crescent, and has the image of a bearded man
-the knight of coins wears a pentacle around his neck
-the magician has symbols of the 4 French playing-card suits on his shirt
-Justice has stone tablets marked 'LOI' and 'CODE' behind her
I am intrigued by the Ace of wands, and I wanted to ask about it, because it is full of red and yellow apples! How odd!
Are there any other older decks that have apples in this card?
I included a picture below.. but it was taken by my webcam since I don't have a scanner, so I apologize for the poor quality.
You can see some of the images here:
http://translate.google.com/transla...earch?q=gaudais+tarot&start=10&hl=en&lr=&sa=N
I could only find it mentioned in one thread in this forum, but there wasn't a lot of discussion about it.
I am wondering if anyone has this deck... I had never heard of it until I saw it on ebay, but it's quite lovely!
The cards are playing-card-sized, and pretty thin, but seem like they'll hold up well anyways.
I'm not too sure about the publisher.... there's no publisher's name, copyright date, ISBN# or anything on the box. It says, "made in Spain", but the two cards describing the deck are in French. One says it was made by Heraclio Fournier, but it seems odd to me that they didn't put their name on the outside of the box anywhere, and the box and cards seem kind of shoddy quality (the other Fournier decks and boxes that I have seem thick in comparison). I wonder if I have an unliscensed knockoff or something?
Anyways, I like the deck.... The courts are all very interesting and incredibly expressive, and the double-ended majors seem divided in half in a more aesthetically pleasing way than in some of these type of decks, where they just cut the card in half and flip it, and it really looks like it should be a full image...
I also particularly like how there are different kinds of plants shown in the floral embellishments on the pips... I can clearly see ivy, oak leaves, clover, and tulips, to name a few.
There are a lot of other interesting bits, too...
-there are stars on the 6 of cups
-there is a little crescent moon on the 7 of coins
-the king of coins holds a scroll
-the ace of swords comes out of a cloud, but the ace of wands the hand issues from thin air, floating.
-the moon is a crescent, and has the image of a bearded man
-the knight of coins wears a pentacle around his neck
-the magician has symbols of the 4 French playing-card suits on his shirt
-Justice has stone tablets marked 'LOI' and 'CODE' behind her
I am intrigued by the Ace of wands, and I wanted to ask about it, because it is full of red and yellow apples! How odd!
Are there any other older decks that have apples in this card?
I included a picture below.. but it was taken by my webcam since I don't have a scanner, so I apologize for the poor quality.