Otello wrote:
Are you sure it is a 21?
It's possible it is a 20, with zero partially cancelled?
In Este Temperanza, over the tackhole I see the upper part of a 7.
About the Appeso, I remember many printed decks with the Appeso upside-down; this is the first I've found on-line:
I haven't Kaplan here, but I remember there is the photo of man standing on one feet named Prudenza, I imagine it was copied from an Appeso upside-down.
Ciao
Marco
Kaplan I p.146, from ca. 1720, standing Prudence. But might well be, that there were earlier, in any case it's pre-Gebelin. Catelin Gefroy (1557) has it hanging, Tarot de Paris has it hanging, but the Vievil-deck has it standing.
The picture shows it standing, but the number is at the bottom (with wrong direction) and other numbers in the deck appear at the top.
Vievil came likely from Belgium and the later Tarot from this direction also had the standing hanged man.
Vandenboerre c. 1780
http://a.trionfi.eu/WWPCM/decks05/d02453/d02453.htm
So perhaps an Error Belgique. Well, if one would conclude, that this error only happened in Belgium, perhaps we're then in a time of later 17th century for the "added numbers" for the Charles VI and
the possible error in the archive becomes probable.
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... There is with some security no 100% security about these tack-hole interpretations, but we know, that in the case of the card "world" a "21" would be expected. And there is a way to see this 21 ... well, one needs some goodwill.
