Aeric
The only thing that prevents me from enjoying the Smith-Waite Centennial is the new deck back. While I find it personally distracting and detrimental to my success with the deck, I have to wonder why SWC, or any other Rider deck for that matter, hasn't been published with the original brown-orange pebbled back of the first print.
From what I've read, the Rose and Lilies of the Original Rider Waite is the closest to a restoration of an historic back from 1910 or 11, but the front imagery is of an inferior facsimile (Pam-C I believe it's called). Why hasn't any company released a Pam-A quality repro with the pebbled back restored, or a Rose and Lilies Pam-A?
There are very few original copies of this deck in existence that we know of, so a reproduction wouldn't be too difficult to identify, especially with the U.S. Games mark or something similar. I'd think it'd be a huge hit and one of if not the most historically accurate repros, front and back.
From what I've read, the Rose and Lilies of the Original Rider Waite is the closest to a restoration of an historic back from 1910 or 11, but the front imagery is of an inferior facsimile (Pam-C I believe it's called). Why hasn't any company released a Pam-A quality repro with the pebbled back restored, or a Rose and Lilies Pam-A?
There are very few original copies of this deck in existence that we know of, so a reproduction wouldn't be too difficult to identify, especially with the U.S. Games mark or something similar. I'd think it'd be a huge hit and one of if not the most historically accurate repros, front and back.