AGMueller Swiss version/U.S. Games
My Swiss version has the large size and darkest colors, contained in AGMueller's blue box. This edition was printed in 1986 and has the ISBN 3-905021-60-9. It took me awhile to dig this out and also find the vendor:
http://www.tarotworld.com/
I believe it is page four if you click on tarots. It is is the 'deluxe' version and the gray frames, darker and more brillant colors and availability in different languages is probably what a picky buyer or collector would want.
Tarotpassages reviews this brighter, more brillant version:
http://www.tarotpassages.com/thoth.htm
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I just bought the large green box Thoth distributed by U.S. Games last week. It's a newer deck, same large size, but two to three shades lighter in back and front than the Swiss version. Actually the boxtop says printed in Belgium Samuel Weiser, Inc., ISBN 0-87728-452-0. It's a softer, more faded or washed-out printing, so it might be more friendly to people you read for...it turns out I prefer my older, darker version printed by AGMueller above.
