Decks worn with time

[Nica]

Hi AT,

I am doing a call for entries. To me nothing says bonding and adventure like decks that look well worn with love. I was wondering if I could motivate you to share photos of your worn out decks with me. They look amazing laid out on a reading cloth, or even on a hard wood surface.

Whether you shuffle them out or rub them against a wooden surface, worn cards look amazing.

Also, does anybody else feel this way when they see filthy, battered decks? I can't be the only one who feels this way.

They fascinate me so.

 

[nisaba]

One of my best buys was a few coins spent on a Tarot Balbi that had been so used over the decades that each card was falling apart, most of the printer's ink had rubbed off the images, and it was translucent.

 

[Le Fanu]

How about this one? I didn't wear it out. I'm too young to have got a deck into this state , but here is my belovedly battered RWS. Stained and scuffed. Too delicate to shuffle really, but laid out once in a while to absorb its magical energies. And when I want to meditate on the horrors of lamination.

 

[Richard]

I throw away things that get worn out. However (mandatory disclaimer), if others treasure such items, that is perfectly alright,

 

[nisaba]

<horrified>

Throw them in MY DIRECTION!

 

[Rhinemaiden]

I have some older decks I cherish... an RWS without copyright, an original printing Hermetic, and a blue box Morgan Greer...

 

[Debra]

Here's some well-worn tarot and fortune-telling cards.

 

[Debra]

One more.

 

[Kissa]

Debra, I am drooling all over the keyboard. Thank you for sharing. Wow!!!

 

[Barleywine]

A few cards from my 44-year-old large-format Thoth. (Yes, that is clear packing tape on the dog-eared 2 of Cups . . .)