Hello all, I informs you that Philippe "Camoin" will soon publish his thesis about Tarot origins. See his web site for more details. He annonced his book for years and all his disciples are waiting with excitation :-w :ympray: 600 pages of revelations that for sure will cause large discuss...

what is the interest in this deck anyway? Is this the son of the Madenie from 1709? Surely, the 1709 deck would be more fascinating since it might (if Chosson's dating is actually late) be the earliest extant Tarot de Marseille II? Why the interest in Jean-Baptist from 1739? Do we have images from ...

Ours dear friend Yves,promised to us the back of this deck... * My train is ready to run Monsieur... Hello Miguel and all, This back is pink colored and "moiré" in french language = watered effect. Sorry but no picture for the moment. B-) But never forget that carmakers was using differen...

If we take the Sforza Castle [SC] well World card as an exemplar of an early or proto-TdM (which of course it may not be), and also take into consideration that sheets such as the Cary Sheet, then it is more likely that early TdMs had no titles nor numbers. I may be incorrect, but even the SC World...

Hello again, I forgot to add that this handpainted deck (wonderfull work indeed) is for me a painted gift offered to a marriage and executed by an artist who was commissioned for this. Experts demonstated that faces on cards are those of rich fellows in honour of them. In my view, we are far from a...

Yves !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The suspicious man... Right! Or Jean-Michel, or Ross, and probably others too. I think it means "Engraved for JPP", but I am guessing. Hello all, :-h In french is written "engraved BY J P Pe" that means very probably Jean Pierre PROCHE Yves

Hello Yves... ( So hell-off ) If you don t mind,could show to us the back card of Chafard ? Common Yves you empire will not fall mon ami for this !!! 8-x Hello Eugim, I am very pleased to see you back to the Club. :ymhug: You were only in Purgatory and now you are clean and with a little circle abo...

Robert said: I think the Sforza Castle cards are a goldmine. The World is very important to my own path of research, as are several of the pips without numbers and the Knight of Batons as well. I dreams to have pictures with enough definition of this cards as to make deeper investigations. So one of...

Hello again, I forgot to add that this handpainted deck (wonderfull work indeed) is for me a painted gift offered to a marriage and executed by an artist who was commissioned for this. Experts demonstated that faces on cards are those of rich fellows in honour of them. In my view, we are far from a ...

As far as I'm aware, Yves, none of the very early handpainted decks show titles or numbering. So the earliest are also more similar to the SC in that sense: no title intended, and no number needed (though in the gaming that may be of some use depending on the rules of play). Hello Jean Michel and a...