Laura Borealis
This thread slipped my mind (not difficult) so sorry I didn't get back sooner!
Your tiny decks are so cute! I really love the Meneghello editions. The bookshelves are a great touch. Thank you for sharing the pictures
I so agree with you about the impact of the art with large cards. That Omaggio a Federico II must be stunning laid out, likewise the Star and Sacred Isle.
I agree, the Curious East counts. I wonder if the landscape format affects how it's read? Seems like there would be at least a subtle difference.
Your novelty playing card collection sounds great - especially the ghost-shaped ones!
I'd forgotten about the Infinity... not my style either, but definitely odd shaped... though I can't help seeing them as 8 shaped instead of lemniscates.
OK - so. Here are my TINY Meneghello ones, with a matchbox; my two rather larger Meneghello sets that ARE in bookshelves (The decks are each about the height of that matchbox), my TEEEEEEEEENY Gnomes from Lo Scarabeo, and a few others - I think there's the one mourned by nisaba, a mini University Books and a tiny Spanish TDM.
The Meneghello ones - the presentation is just so stunning - bookshelves - who'd have thought ? they really are special.
And at the other end of the spectrum, there's my Omaggio a Federico II.
MASSIVE cards, but in a lesser size, the impact of the art would be much diminished. Oh and also the original Star majors only set - another big and beautiful. Likewise the original Sacred Isle. One sees, when the full 78 cards of both these came out, how much of the art's impact is lost when the cards are shrunk, lovely though they still are.
Your tiny decks are so cute! I really love the Meneghello editions. The bookshelves are a great touch. Thank you for sharing the pictures
I so agree with you about the impact of the art with large cards. That Omaggio a Federico II must be stunning laid out, likewise the Star and Sacred Isle.
Tarot of the Curious East is large and the illustrations are landscape! So I think that counts as an odd size/shape.
I have ghost-shaped playing cards. And some that are supposed to be cat-shaped, but really they're a curved oblong in a plastic box with ears. (Hard to describe. I'll post pics later.) And round and heart-shaped playing cards. Oh yeah, and transparent playing cards, too!
(All these came from the hazard of having a Borders in the building where I worked. I couldn't resist any novelty cards. Or tarot. Or Buddhism books. I think I kept them in business a few weeks longer than they would have been otherwise . . .)
Don't forget the Infinity Tarot. Definitely the most unusual shape, complete with the little holes. I don't have it, not enamored of the art style. But definitely unique!
I agree, the Curious East counts. I wonder if the landscape format affects how it's read? Seems like there would be at least a subtle difference.
Your novelty playing card collection sounds great - especially the ghost-shaped ones!
I'd forgotten about the Infinity... not my style either, but definitely odd shaped... though I can't help seeing them as 8 shaped instead of lemniscates.