Wirth 1926?

Otello

Hi, can somebody help me identifying this edition of O.Wirth Tarot?

https://www.facebook.com/marco.c.be...=a.4404752973165.1073741834.1718872471&type=1

For the record I got this deck on eBay some years ago, the paper looks too new to be a 1926/7 original; the back is plain cream, the size is a little bigger then the L'Aigle version and - as you can see - the colors are solid and quite ugly; the metal gold ink is matt and more on copper then on gold side.

Thanks. :)
 

Freddie

Hi,

I think that deck came with a book by Elizabeth Haich called 'Wisdom of the Tarot'. I think that book/cards edition is from around 1975.



Freddie
 

Teheuti

This is the version that came with the Elizabeth Haich book - at least the Amerian edition: http://www.learntarot.com/osmaj01.gif

Otello, your cards look like a deck I bought in Paris in 1986: published by "Drei Eichen Verlag," Munich. They came without a box or info sheet. I identified them later.

Added: I found them on-line: http://eno-tarot.blogspot.com/2013/09/elisabeth-haich-tarot.html
It appears they were published with the original German edition of Haich's book. They are much closer to Wirth's originals and much, much nicer than the deck that came with the American edition of her book!
 

Otello

Hi Mary,

yes, I'd say it is the second link for sure:
"blank backs and very thin cardstock" is correct.

I got the orrible cards in your first link in seventies, together with the italian edition of Wirth book. :)

BTW, Anybody has a link to images of the original Wirth 1926 drawings?
 

Otello

Ah! :thumbsup:

So the original Wirth colors were closer to the Elizabeth Haich reissue than to the L'Aigle one?