sky color

mac22

Ok I have a question why is the sky color in the Original RWS white & in the RWS blue?
 

Rosanne

Hi Mac22, In my Original the sky is generally a jade green and in the 73 RWS it is pale blue. The pale blue I believe was the colour of the sky in the 1910 edition. In a letter to a Mr Steglitz she says in part about sending her 80 designs(the original artwork has been lost ) ...." I will send you a pack-(printed in colour by lithography)- (probably very badly!) as soon as they are ready....." Kaplan says in Volume 111 that ....throughout the cards the colours of blue, yellow, orange red, grey and green dominate..page 35. I think that the Blue Sky is the most authentic.~Rosanne
 

mac22

Rosanne said:
Hi Mac22, In my Original the sky is generally a jade green and in the 73 RWS it is pale blue. The pale blue I believe was the colour of the sky in the 1910 edition. In a letter to a Mr Steglitz she says in part about sending her 80 designs(the original artwork has been lost ) ...." I will send you a pack-(printed in colour by lithography)- (probably very badly!) as soon as they are ready....." Kaplan says in Volume 111 that ....throughout the cards the colours of blue, yellow, orange red, grey and green dominate..page 35. I think that the Blue Sky is the most authentic.~Rosanne

Jade green, eh?

i ordered the deck

Thanks.

^roshi
 

Fulgour

mac22 said:
But why was the pea green color chosen for sky in QoS in original and blue in the 1911 edition?
So far as I know the "Original" by USGames is based only on itself.
Stuart R. Kaplan made a deal with Rider (owned by Random House)
to "give" them a deck ~ and he pulled this one out of his little hat.

It seems to be all over the UK and there you see it without the
Dr. Liz Green PhD booklet, since because of VAT (tax) sets cost
way too much. Stuart then settled fatly into the US market. :)

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Note on the "Rider-Waite" Tarot in the Yellow Boxes:

The only copyright USGames has on the actual Tarot cards is the
little white book... of course anything you "print" your copyright on
is "yours" by default, but here just those little letters and numbers,
so of course USGames also has a copyright on the boxes too. Ugh.
 

mac22

Fulgour said:
So far as I know the "Original" by USGames is based only on itself.
Stuart R. Kaplan made a deal with Rider (owned by Random House)
to "give" them a deck ~ and he pulled this one out of his little hat.

It seems to be all over the UK and there you see it without the
Dr. Liz Green PhD booklet, since because of VAT (tax) sets cost
way too much. Stuart then settled fatly into the US market. :)

*

Note on the "Rider-Waite" Tarot in the Yellow Boxes:

The only copyright USGames has on the actual Tarot cards is the
little white book... of course anything you "print" your copyright on
is "yours" by default, but here just those little letters and numbers,
so of course USGames also has a copyright on the boxes too. Ugh.


Hmm, I have heard & seen elsewhere that Kaplan did indeed pull this deck out of his hat... thus the consumer [me] was duped again... but pea green skies Stewart what where ya thinkin'?
 

Fulgour

The Original Rider Waite Tarot Pack
ISBN: 0880796863
Publisher: U.S. Games Systems Inc.
(January 1, 1993)

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This is a collector's deck with "possibilities" :)
but it does help to have a wider perspective.
It is NOT the original that it is represented as.

And I wouldn't pay more than $12 for the set!
 

mac22

Fulgour said:
The Original Rider Waite Tarot Pack
ISBN: 0880796863
Publisher: U.S. Games Systems Inc.
(January 1, 1993)

*

This is a collector's deck with "possibilities" :)
but it does help to have a wider perspective.
It is NOT the original that it is represented as.

And I wouldn't pay more than $12 for the set!

What possibilities? And too late I paid $13..:D
 

Little Baron

I am quite fond of the sagey green backgrounds. They are quite calming, even though I may try and get hold of the blue background version at some point - maybe if I pick up the giant deck.

LB