missy said:
Also, a photo of the actual auction for posterity's sake!
I looked at the LWB. It looks authentic. I wonder if this "blue tuckbox" was a very rare version!
I just bid and won a blue box on ebay, thanks to this obsessive thread.
For $35, I am happy as can be.
And, the one I bought looks like a tuck box like missy's based on
her photos; I will let you know as soon as I see it in person. But, from the looks of it, it has the same bottom with the white area for a price, etc. The bottom looks different from all of coredil's photos, specifically
this one that shows the bottoms.
Here is the photo from eBay and a screen shot from the auction.
The description was: "Tarot Cards, the authentic pack of 78 cards, 1971 second edition, the only authorised edition, conceived by A.E.Waite and drawn by P Colman Smith, published by Rider & Company. All 78 cards plus 2 blanks and a small stapled guide booklet, these are almost as new as they've never been used, the outer box has a little wear but it's clean and complete.
Feel free to collect."