Tarot de Louttre B

Creator(s): Marc-Antoine Bissiere
Date: 1981
Country: France
Publisher: Grimaud 
Number of Cards: 78
ISBN:    
Type: Marseilles
Reference: Encyclopedia of Tarot, vol. III, pp.320, 323

Notes:
Louttre B is the pseudonym of the French painter Marc-Antoine Bissiere (1926-2012). The deck was published in 1981 by Musee des Arts Decoratifs in cooperation with Grimaud on the opening of an exhibition called "Antique Playing Cards - A Collectors Dream". The cards originally were part of a book called "Le Tarot des familles", which was printed in a limited edition of only 75 copies. The book contains hand painted engravings of the cards with explanations.

The deck shows no human figures, but only the objects taken from Tarot de Marseilles. The images of this deck play with symmetry in various aspects. The three cards, where the symmetry of Roman numbers allows it, have mirror-inverted images. That leads to the first impression, that both The Emperor and The Lovers have number VI and Sun and Fool both have number XXI.

La Force (Strength) has no explicit number, but the number XI is part of the image.

Card titles are in French. The suits are d'Epee, Baton, Coupe, and Deniers. The courts are Valet, Cavalier, Reine, and Roi.  The backs are reversible. The 78 cards plus titlecard and a French only lwb came in a lidded cardboard box.

Cartomancie de l'An 2000

Creator(s): Pino Zac
Date: 1981
Country: France
Publisher: Grimaud
Number of Cards: 22
ISBN:   
Type: Marseilles
Reference: Encyclopedia of Tarot, vol. III, pp.556, 557

Notes:
Pino Zac is the pseudonym of the Italian cartoonist Giuseppe Zaccaria. He studied architecture in Rome, before going into illustrating. He made his debut in 1950, with Gato Filippo – the first comic strip ever to be carried by a newspaper in Italy.

The images of this deck show a humorous depiction of life in the year 2000, as envisioned by artist Pino Zac in 1981. Illustrations are rendered in a cartoon-like style.

The backs have a swirling design in different shades of blue.

Sicilian Tarot (Modiano)

Creator(s): Modiano
Date: 1950/ 1970/ reprint 1981
Country: Italy
Publisher: Concetta Campione / Modiano/ US Games
Number of Cards: 64
ISBN: -
Type: Sicilian, mini
Reference: Encyclopedia of Tarot, vol. III, pp. 125, 129






Notes:
Before Modiano began to produce Tarocco siciliano around 1970, the only company to produce the pack was a small printer in Catania called Concetta Campione, which stopped making this deck around 1965. It had probably started to produce the pack after the closure in 1944 of the cardmaking firm of Guglielmo Murari of Bari.

In Concetta Campione's version, the Hermit held not a lamp but an hour-glass, as it had been in all previous examples of the Sicilian Tarot pack; the misinterpretation was that of whoever made the new designs for Modiano. Modiano closed in 1988.

Tarocco della Musica

Creator(s): Oswaldo Menegazzi 
Date: 1981
Country: Italy 
Publisher: Il Meneghello 
Number of Cards: 22 
ISBN: - 
Type: other
Reference: Encyclopedia of Tarot, vol. III, pp. 368, 374-375









Notes:
The Tarocco della Musica  was created by Osvaldo Menegazzi, in consultation with Paola Maino and with the collaboration of Giovannino Scarsato. The card titles are in Italian. Each of the characters or scenes in the Trump cards is an illustration of a scene from an opera which illustrates the meaning of the corresponding card. Along the side of the image is the Italian name of the opera and the composer.

The court cards are Fante/Page, Cavallo/Knight, Donna/Lady and Re/King. The Donna, Cavallo and Fante depict people playing instruments, while the Kings each show a famous opera house. For the minor arcana aces, a composer is posing with his instrument. The rest of the Pips are represented by a corresponding musical instrument.