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Dienstag, 14. Mai 2013

Sternenmädchens Wahrsagespiel - Starmaiden's Tarot

Creator(s): Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser, Peter Geitner
Date:
1975
Country:
Switzerland
Publisher:
AGM
Number of Cards:
22
ISBN:

Type: Thoth
Reference:
Encyclopedia of Tarot, vol.IV, pp. 541,543


Notes: 
The German record producer Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser-who called himself Sun Courier - founder of the label Kosmische Musik, hired the artist Peter Geitner to design a Tarot for his wife, Gille Lettman, also known as Sternenmädchen. 

It is a Major Arcana only deck with 3 additional cards: "game rules", a mail-in card, and a copyright card with publishing information and a greeting from Gille.

 The oversized cards came in a cardboard box with clear plastic lid. The card titles are in German, some cards are renamed.

The card for the Lovers is the cover to the album Mythos' Dreamlab .

In 1973 Kosmische Musik released an album by Walter Wegmüller called  Tarot, which was packaged with the first edition of Wegmüller's Zigeuner Tarot .

Freitag, 3. Mai 2013

Spanish Tarot

Creator(s): Giusseppe Ottone
Date: 1736*, 1975
Country: Spain
Publisher:
Heraclio Fournier
Number of Cards:
78
ISBN:
  
Type:
Piemontese
Reference:
Encyclopedia of Tarot, vol. I, p. 277  







Notes:
This deck is based upon a Liguria-Piemontese Italian deck by Giuseppe Ottone, which was  first printed from the original wood blocks 1736 in Serravalle Sesia, Italy. The original deck is now located in the Museo Fournier, Vitoria, Spain.

On the 5 of Swords is a Spanish tax print, which was used between 1964 and 1979. The devil has an extra face on his stomach and eyes at his knees.

 The titles of the major arcana cards are given in both English and Spanish. The court card names are given in Spanish only. The Spanish names for the suits are: Bastos, Copas, Espadas and Oros. Bastos are curved and Espadas are straight. A small roman numeral at the bottom of each numbered suit card shows its number and orientation.

 The back design reproduces the back of the originalpack of 1736.

 This deck is available as the Spanish Tarot (Fournier version) and the Spanish-English Tarot (U. S. Games version).

Dienstag, 7. Februar 2012

Royal Fez Moroccan Tarot

Creator(s): Roland Berrill, Michael Hobdell 
Date: 1975
Country: Switzerland
 
Publisher: AGM / US Games 
Number of Cards: 78 
ISBN: - 
Type: RWS
Reference: Encyclopedia of Tarot, vol. I, pp. 272, 274-275








Notes:
Berrill— the founder of the MENSA organization — based the deck on the legend that tarot was a remnant of secret societies that once existed in Fez, Morocco.

The deck was originally published in a limited and numbered edition of 500, but both Berrill and the artist died before they could be distributed. Around 1970 the decks were picked up and marketed by Rigel Press, Ltd. Later, U.S. Games and AGMueller published a non-limited edition (ca. 1975) that remained in print for a number of years.

Each suit reveals a story, depicted in scenes from King to ace (the same as in the Raider Waite).