Lee said:
On a scan of the World card, it looks like the lion has been replaced by... two sheep?!? I love it!
-- Lee
Mine's the J. M. Simon France-Cartes 1979 version. In addition to the two sheep, the angel appears to have an extra figure to his/her left, his back to the card front. This may merely be an artifact of poor printing, but certainly he appears to be there, though why he is wearing a white wharfies singlet, and why the eagle in the right top corner appears to be playing with a red soccor ball, I have no idea.
Moreover, I swear that the Lady La Force is wearing a pair of thongs (flip-flops). The magician's table shows only two legs. The more I look at these cards, the more oddities I find.
For example, on the Ace of Sticks/Batons (un-named, as are all the Aces), in addition to it's branches with oak leaves and acorns, also has a bare branch which has a bunch of grapes attached to it, by what looks like a chain.
The four of coins has an oval figure (like an amulet) in the centre in which a semi-naked child stands. He has a red loin cloth, one foot on what appears to be a rock, and is bending a snake in his hands, which is, presumably, and incomplete ouroboros.
I don't know ... maybe these are not oddities - I am not all that familiar with this deck, nor with my other older decks. It does look mass-produced and of poor quality, but this is one of the things that makes it so attractive to me.
mythos