Besançon / Marseille Cards Question

HarryHoudini

I picked them up over the years collecting Houdini and Conjuring books and ephemera. Seems our two fields cross from time, especially in books. I think they came from an old magician's collection.
 

HarryHoudini

Whew! Ok, I have the scans. There are 16 of them. If you really want them, please let me know. I will be listing them on Ebay in a week or so.

Thanks for all the help,
Kevin
 

kenji

HarryHoudini has kindly shown me pictures of all the 47 cards.
Here I'll list them:

TRUMPS: I, II, III, IIII, V, VII, VIIII, X, XI, XIII, XIIII, XVIII, XX, XXI
& "LE FOL"
SWORDS: A, Q, P, 7, 5, 2
BATONS: A, K, 10, 9, 6, 4, 3, 2
CUPS: A, K, Kn, P, 10, 7, 5, 2
COINS: A, K, Q, P, 9, 7, 5, 4, 3, 2

(A = Ace, K = King, Q = Queen, Kn = Knight, P = Page)
 

HarryHoudini

The Tarot cards that started this thread are now on Ebay. Hopefully the link below will work. If not, you can do a search under sellers and type in harryhoudini.

Good Luck,
Kevin
 

le pendu

I wonder who the first bidder is??

A mysterious "j_mdavid".

Good luck everybody!

robert
 

HarryHoudini

Must be very a smart person.
 

Huck

It's in the press now :)

Tarot News November

http://trionfi.com/0/n/

contains links to a Conver (from Kenji), to a deck (47 cards) from Guilleaume Mann (late 18th, just at an auction at ebay till Sunday with a first bid of 100 Dollar) and a few unseen Minchiate cards (17th or 18th, at an auction in Berlin, 6th of December).


### don't overlook the Minchiate cards :), not that they especially beautiful, but they are generally rare.

Other links:
http://trionfi.com/0/i/c/All-78/
---- All 78 Tarot-motifs in comparition mode from more than 200 decks.
http://trionfi.com/0/s/k/
--- database researchable Katalog, 3600 playing card decks
http://trionfi.com/0/s/b/
---- Sites, that show the whole deck (Inana's list)
 

HarryHoudini

160 hits and one bid. You guys are just like my last second magic snipers. Good Luck to all.
 

Gardener

Oh, I hope JMD gets it because he'll love it so much, and he'll let us all know about each stage of discovery as he studies it up close and personal. Good luck, diva!