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nicky

Aesop's Fables Playing Cards - they are repos from playing cards based on a deck printed by I. Kirk ca 1759.
 

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nicky

P22 Type Foundry cards
 

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Belinda2

Here you go I have the nile deck below from 1900

http://cgi.ebay.com/NILE-FORTUNE-TE...=UK_Collectables_Paper_RL&hash=item23112c1afa

revelation fortune telling playing cards 1919 two different fortunes on each card the top and the bottom.
http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-revelation-357-fortune-telling-cards-tarot
gypsy queen Fortune telling cards 1930's they are at the bottom of the page.
http://www.museum-of-childhood.com/vintage-cards/cards-a-z/cards-g.php
The Withes Oracle 1948
http://www.rubylane.com/item/404269-T00001552/White-Card-Co-Witches-Oracle
Zolar's official fortune telling cards 1940s? With a long fortune on the top and a shorter reversed fortune on the bottom.
French playing cards
Mkitkhavi fortune teller of the Caucasus.
 

Le Fanu

Belinda2 said:
http://www.tormentedartifacts.com/deck.html
these are dark I thought you might be interested in these playing cards.
ah, yes. I know these well! I recommended them to somebody here!

I love that 1948 Witches Oracle; they are very similar in style to the Playing Card Oracles.

And Nickey, I love those Aesop ones!

Some beautiful cards coming out of the closet here!
 

Aulruna

I just won a covolute of 60 decks for $30 on ebay. I think these are mostly cheap skat decks - the seller only showed the backs, this was from someone who collects with commercial advertisements - but I recognized a few funny ones like one which has caricatures of German politicians from the 80ies.

So far, I just have a handful of PC decks myself - here are my favourites, the Jeu de la Pucelle and a Mucha deck I got from the Mucha museum in Prague.
 

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Le Fanu

Isn't that Mucha one a Piatnik deck? Or was it one made exclusively for the Museum gift shop?
 

jackdaw*

That Mucha one IS lovely.
 

Aulruna

The Mucha is a Piatnik.
 

Belinda2

Aulruna said:
I just won a covolute of 60 decks for $30 on ebay. I think these are mostly cheap skat decks - the seller only showed the backs, this was from someone who collects with commercial advertisements - but I recognized a few funny ones like one which has caricatures of German politicians from the 80ies.

So far, I just have a handful of PC decks myself - here are my favourites, the Jeu de la Pucelle and a Mucha deck I got from the Mucha museum in Prague.
30 well thats was a good deal I must say, I will have to hang out on ebay like I use too, I am missing out!
 

Cerulean

I finally found another Four Corners of the World...

it's not quite a transformation deck, but a 52 card with two joker deck with gorgeous aces and courts and semi-grayed scenes on the pips. I did find an old one,but the original Dondorf deck it's way out of my league. But this is a reproduction I found when out with a friend once and I finally found another using the Denver Pete's website.

I have a few older cartomancy decks, but they are easily found in reproduction. I was eying a blue owl Lenormand at Denver Pete's, but I like the rhymes and pictures from the French and Belgian versions of the old 1930's-to-1950's reproductions better...the prices were about the same as the $12.50 it would cost for the Blue Owl. It's a pretty thing, with the rhymes, playing card inserts and scenes!

There's also the funny Madame Red Hat--which would be a funny hat to eat if it's not a Ms. Lenormand in disguise! (I would not really eat it, unless it was a nice sugar cookie..). What is delightful is a prettily period lady looking cheerfully at a pig in one one of the funny pictures.

http://www.denverpetesplayingcards.com/products/MADAME-RED-HAT-FORTUNE-TELLING-CARDS.html
 

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