The origin of the Grimaud Marseille (1930) Marteau

Freddie

This link was added onto a recent thread concerning C. burdel decks and I am quite happy this morning to see it contains some important information about the Grimaud Marseille 1930 current deck. I, like some others here, have always assumed that it is a re-drawn version from 1930 (for Paul Marteau book) of the 1760-1761 N Conver deck. Can anyone here offer any more information on this deck?


http://tarot-de-marseille-heritage.com/english/historic_tarots_gallery.html


I find all of the information contained within this link very helpful in sorting out some of the easily mixed up Tarot De Marseille decks. This is good reading and loaded with some fine eye candy as well. Thank you to the author of this website.


Freddie
 

Moonbow

Hi Freddie, that's a great resource and some lovely scans. Well worth book-marking, thanks for posting the link.
 

Cerulean

I thought the 1890 Arnoult was the predecessor

which the House of Grimaud bought and marketed as the "Tarot Italian" with the odd coloring to the Hanged Man before it was colored and renamed/marketed in 1930's as Ancient Tarot of Marseilles?

Maybe I am mixing up... am not understanding...the link posted by Freddie is very valuable... and I am jumping from what I thought from a circa 1890 sample card......





http://en.camoin.com/tarot/Grimaud-Arnoult-Marseilles-Tarot.html

The link above from Camoin --hopefully that is helpful?

Cerulean

This link was added onto a recent thread concerning C. burdel decks and I am quite happy this morning to see it contains some important information about the Grimaud Marseille 1930 current deck. I, like some others here, have always assumed that it is a re-drawn version from 1930 (for Paul Marteau book) of the 1760-1761 N Conver deck. Can anyone here offer any more information on this deck?


http://tarot-de-marseille-heritage.com/english/historic_tarots_gallery.html


I find all of the information contained within this link very helpful in sorting out some of the easily mixed up Tarot De Marseille decks. This is good reading and loaded with some fine eye candy as well. Thank you to the author of this website.


Freddie