Rusty Neon
Good luck, jmd. Maybe even your opening bid will be the winner. 
Besançon / Marseille Cards Question
Huck
Juno and Jupiter Tarot pictures are surely rare, although both motifs belong to the oldest motifs:
http://trionfi.com/bilder/juno.jpg
http://trionfi.com/bilder/juno.jpg
HarryHoudini
Well, I hope so too, but the top bidder looks tough to beat. Someone just took 6 shots at at it and came up short. Good Luck!
HarryHoudini
A new high bidder!
HarryHoudini
300 hits on these cards. I have a strong feeling this will finish big.
Good Luck!
Good Luck!
kenji
Hi Kevin
Mr Thierry Depaulis has given me some information
about "Revolutinary" tarot decks as follows;
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
I think their fashion was very short: 1793 and 1794.
When the Terror was over, after the fall of the
Comité de Salut public (August 1794), everyone
was relieved and wanted to come back to more
quiet politics and to more familiar pictures.
"Revolutionary" cards were given up very rapidly.
They were either thrown away or recycled as
"cardboard slips", eg for library catalogues. But
this applies to very different designs such as
the "Sages-Vertus-Braves" patterns where all
courts had been changed. Now, I would think it
was not so quick with cards that had only been
"corrected", like ordinary "Paris pattern" cards
or tarot cards.
So to answer you question: the production ended
in 1794 but the sales must have lasted a little
more.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Kenji
Mr Thierry Depaulis has given me some information
about "Revolutinary" tarot decks as follows;
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
I think their fashion was very short: 1793 and 1794.
When the Terror was over, after the fall of the
Comité de Salut public (August 1794), everyone
was relieved and wanted to come back to more
quiet politics and to more familiar pictures.
"Revolutionary" cards were given up very rapidly.
They were either thrown away or recycled as
"cardboard slips", eg for library catalogues. But
this applies to very different designs such as
the "Sages-Vertus-Braves" patterns where all
courts had been changed. Now, I would think it
was not so quick with cards that had only been
"corrected", like ordinary "Paris pattern" cards
or tarot cards.
So to answer you question: the production ended
in 1794 but the sales must have lasted a little
more.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Kenji
HarryHoudini
Hi Kenji,
Thanks for the time and effort. They are rare. Maybe I should pull them and start collecting! The hits on the item are high, but not too much on bidding. I might just be better off to hold on to them for another time and when more info comes in.
Best always....Kevin
Thanks for the time and effort. They are rare. Maybe I should pull them and start collecting! The hits on the item are high, but not too much on bidding. I might just be better off to hold on to them for another time and when more info comes in.
Best always....Kevin
HarryHoudini
Le Bateleur from Ebay! I've sent two emails, but they keep bouncing back! Good Luck..Kevin
Huck
255 Dollars, I guess, it's a cheap price for the deck
jmd
It was well worth it for whoever was able to obtain it... and a wonderful historical addition.
Had it come a couple of months earlier, I would have been in a position to un-hesitantly add a little to that final price - even though the deck remained incomplete.
Best wishes to Le Bateleur - and if I suspect who it may be, it may indeed be another Aeclectic member who only irregularly posts...
... but whoever it is, best wishes!
Had it come a couple of months earlier, I would have been in a position to un-hesitantly add a little to that final price - even though the deck remained incomplete.
Best wishes to Le Bateleur - and if I suspect who it may be, it may indeed be another Aeclectic member who only irregularly posts...
... but whoever it is, best wishes!
