Manteia Courier 1998-99

• Waite-Smith • Motherpeace • Golden Dawn • Tapestry • Cosmic • of Spirit • Ceremonial Magic Tarot • Morgan Greer • Albano • Aquarian • Yeager • Crowley • Voyager • Haindl • Kier • Transformational Tarot • Röhrig • • Papus • New Tarot for the Aquarian Age • Tarot Gruyeres • Marseilles • Richard Gardner Tarot • Royal Fez • Davis Sheridan Tarot • Frown Strong Tarot • Thelemic Tarot • Tarot Cardinal • Future Solleone • • Arista • Celtic Tarot • Egorov Tarot • Gentillini • BOTA • Jo Gill Tarot • Rolla Nordic • Witches Tarot • Golden Dawn Tarot • Hermetic Tarot • Astro Tarot • Xultun Tarot • Zolar • Avion Eye Tarot • Golden Cycle Tarot • Mountain Dream • Astral Tarot • Hoi Pollock • Balbi • El Ted Tarot • • Karma Music Tarot • ustralian Dreamtime • Arcus Arcanum • Alchemical Tarot • Ancestral Path Tarot • Hannahs Tarot • Shadow Tarot • Story Teller Tarot • Sacred Rose Tarot • Shining Woman • Evolving Tarot • Baseball Tarot • Tarot de Tattwas • Unicorn Tarot • Ukraine Tarot • Wild Flower Tarot • Word of One Tarot • Moonprincess Himiko Tarot Molinero • Tarocco Mitologica • Victoria Regina Tarot • Tarocci di Felicia • Tarocchi di Elisabetta • Tarot Espagnol • Egyptian Tarot • Fantasy Tarot • Flying Hearts Tarot • Enchanted Tarot • Druid Tarot • Golden Rider • Healing Earth Tarot • Jumbledance Tarot • Deutsches Original Tarot • Sternenmädchen Tarot • Zigeuner Tarot • Pointner • Ommagio a Erté • Sola Busca • Angel Tarot • Medicine Tarot • Alitalia • Spiral Tarot • Daniuela Fulgosi Tarot • Cosmic Tribe Tarot • Tartessos • Black Tarot • Faery Wicca Tarot • Wheel of Change Tarot • Healing Tarot • Ludwig Tarot • Windmill Tarot • Tarocchi di Eva • Renaissance Tarot • Northern Shadows • Love Tarot • Cat’s World Tarot • Old English Tarot • Gothic Tarot • • Waite- Smith • Motherpeace • Golden Dawn • Tapestry • Cosmic • Tarot of Spirit • Ceremonial Magic Tarot • Morgan Greer • Albano • Aquarian • Yeager • Crowley • Voyager • Haindl • • Transformational Tarot • Röhrig • Oswald Wirth • Papus • New Tarot for the Aquarian Age • Tarot Gruyeres• Marseilles • Ri- chard Gardner Tarot • Royal Fez • David Sheridan Tarot • Frown Strong Thelemic Tarot •TarotCar- dinal • Future Solleone • Etteilla • Arista • Celtic Tarot • Egorov Gentillini • BOTA • Jo Gill Tarot • Rolla Witches Tarot •Golden Dawn Hermetic Tarot • Astro Tarot • Xultun Tarot • Zolar • Golden Cycle Mountain Dream • Astral Tarot • Hoi Pollock • Balbi • Deutsches Origi- nal Tarot • Zigeuner Tarot • Sternenmäd- chen• Pointner • Karma Music Tarot • Ommagio a Erté • Australian Dreamtime • Arcus Arcanum Tarot • Alchemical Tarot • Ancestral Path Tarot • Sola Busca • Shadow 25 Years with Tarot Tarot • Sacred Rose Tarot • Shining Woman • Baseball Tarot • Tarot de Tattwas • Unicorn Tarot • Ukraine Tarot • Wild Flower Tarot • Word of One Tarot • Moonprincess Himiko Tarot • Tarot de Molinero • Tarocco Mitologica • El Ted Tarot • Victoria Regina Tarot • Tarocci di Felicia • Tarocchi di Elisabetta • Tarot Espagnol • Egyptian Tarot • Waite-Smith • Motherpeace • Golden Dawn • Tapestry • Cosmic • Tarot of Spirit • Ceremonial Magic Tarot • Morgan Greer • Albano • Aquarian • Yeager • Crowley • Voyager • Haindl • Kier • Transformational Tarot • Röhrig • Oswald Wirth • Waite-Smith • Motherpeace • Golden Dawn • Tarot of Spirit • •Papus • New Tarot for the Aquarian Age • Tarot Gruyeres • Marseilles • Richard Gardner Tarot • Royal Fez • Davis Sheridan Tarot • Frown Strong Tarot • Thelemic Tarot • Tarot Cardinal • Future Solleone • Etteilla • Arista • Celtic Tarot • Egorov Tarot • Gentillini • BOTA • Jo Gill Tarot • Rolla Nordic • Witches Tarot • Golden Dawn Tarot • Hermetic Tarot • Astro Tarot • Xultun Tarot • Zolar • Golden Cycle Tarot • Mountain Dream • Astral Tarot • Hoi Pollock • Balbi • Deutsches Original Tarot • Zigeuner Tarot • Sternenmädchen Tarot • Pointner • Karma Music Tarot • Ommagio a Erté • Australian Dreamtime • Arcus Arcanum • Alchemical Tarot • Ancestral Path Tarot • Sola Busca • Shadow Tarot • Sacred Rose Tarot • Shining Woman • Baseball Tarot • Tarot de Tattwas • Unicorn Tarot • Ukraine Tarot • Wild Flower Tarot • Word of One Tarot • Moonprincess Himiko Tarot • Victoria Regina Tarot • Tarot de Molinero • Tarocco Mitologica • El Ted Ta ro t • Victoria Regina Tarot • Tarocci di Felicia • Tarocchi di Elisabetta • Tarot Espagnol • Egyptian Tarot • Waite-Smith • Motherpeace • Golden Dawn • Tapestry • Cosmic • Tarot of Spirit • Ceremonial Magic Tarot • Morgan Greer • Albano • Aquarian • Yeager • Crowley • Voyager • Haindl • Kier • Transformational Tarot • Röhrig • Oswald Wirth • Papus • Evolving Tarot • New Tarot for the Aquarian Age • Tarot Gruyeres • Marseilles • Richard Gardner Tarot • Royal Fez • Davis Sheridan Tarot • Frown Strong Tarot • Thelemic Tarot • Tarot Cardinal • Future Solleone • Etteilla • Arista • Celtic Tarot • Egorov Tarot • Gentillini • BOTA • Jo Gill Tarot • Rolla Nordic • Witches Tarot • Golden Dawn Tarot • Hermetic Tarot • Astro Tarot • Xultun Tarot • Zolar • Golden Cycle Tarot • Mountain Dream • Astral Ta ro t • Hoi Pollock • Balbi • Deutsches Original Tarot • Zigeuner Tarot • Sternenmädchen Tarot • Pointner • Karma Music Tarot • Ommagio a Erté • Australian Dreamtime • Arcus Arcanum • Alchemical Tarot • Ancestral Path Tarot • Sola Busca • Shadow Tarot • Sacred Rose Tarot • Shining Woman • Baseball Tarot • Tarot de Tattwas • Unicorn Tarot • Ukraine Tarot • Wild Flower Tarot • Word of One Tarot • Moonprincess Himiko Tarot • Tarot de Molinero • Tarocco Mitologica • El Ted Tarot • Victoria Regina Tarot • Tarocci di Felicia • Tarocchi di Elisabetta • Tarot Espagnol • Egyptian Tarot • Waite-Smith • Motherpeace • Golden Dawn • Tapestry • Cosmic • Tarot of Spirit • Ceremonial Magic Tarot • Morgan Greer • Albano • Aquarian • Yeager • Crowley • Voyager • Haindl • Kier • Transformational At the turn of the millennium - editorial

Whilst I’m writing this we are Haindl, Kier, Yeager (even though getting closer to the end of the USGS has transformed the latter Millennium (well, I know that there into a sex-political correct pack), are different opinions about that, but now all taken under the “protective” let’s say we are). The 31. of Decem- wings of US Games Systems Inc. ber 1999 my voluntary mission in the realm of tarot is over. For 25 The new packs produced under this years my aim has been to document, monopolistic mass media concept as comprehensive as possible, what are nice pieces, well made, with nice is and was happening with esoteric illustrative art and ... extremely tarot and related concepts in the predictable. They do but rarely 20th century. I feel that I have done create tension, they are “just another at least a reasonable job within this tarot deck”, and the interest for What have ardent tarot collectors subject, and I know that my archive them is soon lost. Fundamentally, to look forward to include in their of mantic art tools, regarding the they have not very much to do with collections now the commercial period is not inferior to any other the essence of tarot. The decreasing packs are all so dull? Small indepen- known archives and collections. In interest for similar commercial dent productions, sometimes the new millennium, others will have items have likewise caused the few produced and financed by the artists to take over the documentation task. other manufacturers to slow down themselves, show up from time to I don’t envy them since everything their publication rate; there is long time, and the easy access to Internet has changed so much, that, in my between tarot decks from, for makes it possible to market such opinion, this will be an almost example, Spanish Fournier these packs without much cost, thus impossible task. days, and the French manufacturers securing a reasonable sale. Also we seem to stake more on cartomantic have seen an increasing new trend Tarot is still in fashion but has packs and reprints of old successes establishing itself during the last changed immensely during the last than on new artistic . Italian couple of years, the entirely hand- couple of years. The tarot commer- manufacturers like ItalCards and Dal made, very small editions of what I cialism received its backlash; lately Negro, who published a long row of call “private tarot decks”. More Swiss AGMüller was taken over by excellent and artistically remarkable about them later in this issue. the big CartaMundi decks some years ago, are never factories in Belgium. It is not many heard from again; only LoScarabeo, The are at present two schools of years ago that AGMüller, as one of who has a market particularly aimed tarot. One is the traditional Euro- the few remaining card manufactur- towards comic book fans, whose pean kabbalistic tradition, which ers, expanded heavily and estab- favorite characters are used in the follow either the French branch (in lished themselves as a publishing decks, is still producing. French Le the spirit of esoterists like Oswald company, aiming at a bigger share of Diouris, not heard of for many years, Wirth) or the English Golden Dawn the growing new age market. Now saw this light too, and produced based branch (Waite, Crowley). The we have only CartaMundi, in liaison recently a series of Comic character other school is the American laissez- with USGames Systems Inc., left as tarots, but with French suitmarks. faire type of tarot, which has moved the major tarot card manufacturers. more or less away from the Euro- The tarot market has turned into a Are tarot packs a consumer’s pean tradition, following the typical monopolistic state with USGames product, which is bought, used for a American trend of creating a Systems Inc. as the all-encompassing short while and thrown away again? religion-like undertaking out of producer and distributor. A look in One might get that impression everything. Typical for this tarot their catalog reveals that not only seeing the huge print runs some branch is, that there is no tradition, their own products are offered for decks are made in. In most cases no rules, tarot is everything, the sale but also most of the packs from those figures are not accessible, but images and the tarot concept can the few remaining other producers, Llewellyn used to list the size of the include every myth or any mixture like Italian Lo Scarabeo. Likewise are print run in their wholesale cata- of mythologies or any other popular formerly independently manufac- logues. Who are the customers for asset. The only basis being the name tured decks like Motherpeace, this bulk of decks? There is not that and the outer form, the card deck Golden Dawn, Tapestry, Cosmic, great number of tarotists. Are all and its structure of 22 majors, 16 Tarot of Spirit, Duquette’s Ceremo- the decks bought by collectors? Or courts and 40 number cards. Even nial Magic Tarot, Morgan Greer, is it just a consumers market, buy that is not always followed: cards are Albano, Aquarian, Crowley, Voyager, and throw away? added, cards are removed, the

Manteia Courier 1998-99 page 2 number of suits changed. Everyone They are made for the sake of art, makes her own concept, her own the tarot structure constituting a ideologies, her own preferences, her framework for the artist’s creativity. A special note to own tarot images. It is, of course, OK There exist a number of such contributors to to put one’s own concept and excellent artistic tarot packs (and APA-Tarot interpretation into a set of pictures. have done ever since the Visconti The reservation come when the packs of the Renaissance were conceptors decide, even insist that all painted), made by peoples, who are their private impressions, references artists rather than tarotists; not so As I mentioned in Mulleposten no. 62 (July 1999), I planned to etc. shall be imposed upon others, bad a foundation. The worst is, when stop my contributions to APA- the gospel shall be spread. Hundreds mediocre illustrators with little or Tarot at the end of 1999. I of such non-tarot products fill up the no knowledge of tarot, decide to promised that a final issue of market and make the concept of make a tarot deck to get their share Mulleposten would be included tarot impenetrable. Where is the of the market. with APA-Tarot no. 142, which should have been the century’s tarot tradition in this fun fair? Will a last. Writing this early December newcomer ever come discover it? 1999 and with issue no. 141, * * * which had a deadline of October From the point of view of the 6th, still due, it will not happen. collector this overproduction is, of This issue of Manteia Courier is intended to be a kind of status of my Instead of that special issue of course, interesting. The more Mulleposten, this issue of Manteia different decks are getting produced, tarot activities during the 25 years I Courier 1998-99 will be sent the more decks there are to collect. have been involved. It will express directly to all APA-Tarot con- An additional advantage for the what I feel about these 25 years of tributors listed in no.140. I see no genuine collector is, that the com- involvement. Most likely it will also reason for sending it to the so- be the very last issue; my good-bye called CARD (Coordinating.... mercial interest in any given deck is something .. person), just to delay very soon lost, so the first printrun is to excessive Tarot involvement. In the distribution for another not followed by a next, which means any case, I feel that the paper form is unknown period of time. that the deck quickly is out of print, no longer relevant for information and thus rare, with increased prices like this, in these days of electronic I want to thank all current APA- publication. Tarot contributors and all those following. former contributors, whom this paper may reach. I have, cer- It appears that more and more new My own personal attitude will be tainly, learned a lot from the tarot decks can be characterized as expressed entirely throughout this multitude of changing members Tarot Art (and as such collectibles). issue, in various articles and in the during the many rewarding years. interview given to Asta Erte, who is Having been part of the enter- They have no other function. They prise for 12 years, having contrib- can’t be used for esoteric purposes, close to me, knows me very well and uted 62 issues of Mulleposten with for the most they are not even therefore knows what questions to a total of more than 1000 pages I meant nor suitable for card reading. ask. would, of course, have liked my K. Frank Jensen retreat to have been different, but it should not be so. I would have liked APA-tarot to come to a worthy end, which would have happened if the interest had been so. But is wasn’t. Sorry, but I’m convinced, that unless some kind of miracle happens, the end of APA-Tarot will come anyway and not so worthy as it could have been. I think that all contributors have become aware of that by now. APA-Tarot doesn’t deserve that. (More about the end of Mulle- posten in the interview by Asta Erte).

My address and e-mail is some- where else in this issue. I’ll be pleased to hear from any of you directly. If you already have written comments to me in your APA-T contribution, which I may not receive, please mail a copy of your zine directly to me, and I’ll garantee you a direct answer. K.Frank J.

Manteia Courier 1998-99 page 3 Tarot Decks by Collage Technique

In the days of The Golden Dawn it very hard to come by now, since it circle, she invested in the rather risky was an exercise for every neophyte was mainly distributed within the affair of having Transformational Tarot to make her or his own tarot deck Rajnesh organization. The Baghwan/ printed. to explore its possibilities and ascend Oshu people have never taken in the order’s grades. Unfortunately, copyright rules serious, so in this Meanwhile, the increasing quality of we have never seen any of the decks deck, like in their other later decks, color copying, and the easy use of resulting from this exercise, despite several of the images can easily be production machinery have made it of several existing archives with identified. much easier for artists, who want to comprehensive collections of Golden publish their own decks in limited Dawn material. Not one complete The next collage deck I saw was editions, to reach excellent results. deck has ever shown up, not even a presented to me by an architect, a The usual procedure is, that the set of the twenty two majors, but student at one of my weekend cards are copied, mounted with a only a few single cards made by workshops. For several years after, I backside, trimmed, laminated in prominent members like William showed slides from this deck at sleeves and maybe trimmed again. In Butler Yeats. The description of the other workshops, just to show what my own opinion, the protective exercise, the rules for the deck, are could be done in that way. lamination is the weak point in the still existing. Maybe only a few GD- process. The cards would look better members, if any, did finish a deck? The overestimated Voyager Tarot with without, but if the deck shall be artwork by Ken Knutson, promoted handled to a greater extent, a Nowadays, tarotists are more loudly by James Wanless, might well protective surface is a necessity. One consistent when it comes to making have been my third collage tarot day, however, there will be better one’s own deck. Lately tarot decks, acquaintance. A few other collage methods for this, too. handmade in limited editions, have decks followed and also a cartoman- become a prominent part of the tic pack, Nick Douglas and Penny Another thing is, that the process is tarot scene. The concept of making Slinger’s The Secret Daikini Oracle extremely time consuming and the one’s own deck has been carried on. (1979). material used rather costly. So don’t Except, of course, in the days of The expect to be able to buy a 78 card Golden Dawn, a set of rules should 10-12 years ago, Katlyn Miller (a deck made in 10-20 copies for the be followed, so the GD-tarot dancer, actor and stage magician, who same 35-50$ a mass product, printed correspondences were sure to be also worked with a new age business in thousands, costs. You have to pay inherent in the finished deck. under the name of „Mermade“) about four times that much, but then gifted me with a set of collaged tarot you own a tarot deck, that has been Times have changed, and it is not majors, she had mocked up, when particularly cared for by the artist longer so fashionable to follow rules. she was in need of a deck while herself, and there are not thousands Everyone can make her own tarot travelling in Asia0 . A precious pack in of them out there. Worth to pay for, deck, regardless of rules and even my collection. isn’t it? And even if the miracle without otherwise practising artistic should happen, that one of them abilities, like drawing or painting. * * * * * later on was commercially manufac- That is what happens right now. The current collage tarot trend tured, that one limited original will Collage technique and new repro- started, as I see it, with the publica- still be a treasure. Besides, most duction possibilities, such as the use tion of Arnell Ando’s Transfor- privately produced collage decks of digital color copiers, make it also mational Tarot in 1995. Arnell had cannot be commercially manufac- possible to publish small printrun in returned to USA after several years tured, alone for the sake of copyright. an excellent quality, sometimes an in Japan, and in search of a career It also means, that the decks which, even better quality than if a tradi- she educated as an Expressive Art after all, are printed commercially, are tional printing procedure is used. Therapist. She soon discovered the not so intense and intimate as the Collage technique has become the possibilities collaging techniques limited editions, because so many new tarot media, which I’ll concen- offered, allowing people, who were considerations, irrelevant of the trate on in this article. not versed in traditional artistic ways artistic execution itself, had to be of expression, to work artistically. taken into account. Again I will One of the first collage decks I ever She imparted this knowledge to mention Arnell Ando, who later, in came across was „The Goose is Out - students in her workshops, and for 1998, has made a few copies of her A Zen Poker“ published in a rather herself it became a way to come in very first collage deck, created in limited edition back in 1982 in Italy touch with her inner being. Wanting 1994, available. Even if her Transforma- for the Rajneesh Foundation and to share her tarot deck with a wider tional Tarot has great qualities, this

Manteia Courier 1998-99 page 4 first pack, which is named Hero’s hand! This case is not the first of the The Maninni-decks are created by Journey Tarot, made without any sort, I have experienced. a group of artists gathered around commercial restrictions being put Tarot-L, an Internet discussion group. upon her, is my absolute favourite, Michele Jackson, indefatigable Queen So far, two 78 card decks were made not only because of her eminent of the tarot web, was inspired to and a third is under work and will collage technique, but particularly work in the collage media during a probably be finished during year because it is feels more personal. visit to Arnell Ando. So far, I have 2000. Members of Tarot-L sign up as seen two decks from her hand and contributors, have cards assigned and The collage concept became known more are to be expected. Michele a deadline is given. The cards are and popular and several limited has a good artistic feeling, and I am presented on the web and in the private collage decks are now still amazed by the quality of her end each contributor makes color available. Following is a short first deck, Evolving Tarot (1999, 78 copies in a sufficient number of her description of those, who have cards), which was made frantically in own decks. The copies are collected crossed my way. I have only men- a very short time. Michele’s second and each contributor get a copy of tioned those which, in some way or deck Aleph-Beth Tarot (1999/22 the entire deck. The set is, for another, were produced in more cards) has a deeper purpose since it copyright reasons, not available copies than one, this omitting for was made in an attempt to teach outside the closed circle of contribu- example, those sets of majors I herself the worldly images behind tors. acquired through my mail artists’ the Hebrew alphabet. Not a bad tarot projects. purpose of a tarot deck, since such Another group-made 78-card tarot information often is hard to store in deck, was done by a collage group, Avion Eye Tarot was made as early one’s mind. Capolan, which took its name after as in 1988 by artist Sherri Williams. Nick Bantock’s collage art box of the The few packs, about five, were not Story Teller’s Tarot is a joint venture same name. (He is the artist of the offered for sale, but given to friends. by Diane B. Wilkes and Arnell Ando. Griffin and Sabine-trilogy and several Diane selected 22 of her favorite other unusual books). The Capolan Jumbledance Tarot (1998) is made stories (including one of my own tarot, made by 37 different artists in by noted tarot artist Alexandra favorites since the 1950’s: Appoint- 1998, is extraordinarily congruent in Genetti, whose “Wheel of Tarot” was ment in Samarra), corresponded its style, even though it is made by published commercially. Honestly, I them with the tarot majors, de- many different artists. Again, here much prefer this noncommercial scribed and commented them, while the deck is only available to the deck of hers with excellent tarot art. Arnell made the accompanying deck group’s members, so if you want to It was offered in a very small of 22 cards. 50 copies of the book / get one, you have to persuade one number and interested parties can, deck set were offered for sale in of them that it feels better at home perhaps, still obtain one. 1998, but are now sold out. with you!

Cerrithwen Genetti, a daughter of Sarah Ovenall is one collage artist, I have myself initiated a similar Alexandra Genetti, took up her who in her work, Victoria Regina enterprise, called The Mail Artist’s mothers interest when making her Tarot (1999), has prepared a com- Tarot 1998. 33 mail artists from all own tarot, Flowers of mercial publication by using copy- over contributed two Life in 1999. The images are simple, right free material only as a basis for major arcana cards each. The deck in the sense that they are not collages, namely the wealth of resulting is available outside the overcrowded, a quality I appreciate. interesting and detailed wood narrow circle of contributors as a The names of each card are obvious, engraved illustrations from maga- limited “Collectors Edition” of 25. and it is encouraging to note, that zines in the late 19th century, an art The edition includes all 66 cards, some younger people actually show style I have always been attracted to. three of each major. Besides, there is interest in tarot! So far I have seen only a set of the a small booklet illustrating all 66 majors, but Sarah is working to cards in color. Self-producing the The artist of Full Moon Tarot complete an entire 78 card deck. deck, I tried to eliminate the tradi- (1998-99), Lunaea Weatherstone Also, in another way, the deck is tional lamination pouches, hot- planned to make copies of the deck interesting by being black and white; mounting the color images directly available. It was advertised on the quite unusual these days. Sets of the on heavy cardboard. net and apparently the interest did majors are currently available in a overwhelm the artist, who never very high quality which was achieved Right now we are all waiting for came to finish the number of decks by colorcopying the b&w images. another group’s work, The Artists’ ordered. It is a pity, because the Inner Vision Tarot. It is a joint images available on Internet do Group Works venture by numerous artists, includ- surely look promising. So, be careful, Some group-made tarot decks shall ing many formerly mentioned in this when entering into such an enter- also be mentioned here; they may article or from the groups men- prise, and don’t estimate a price not be entirely made by collage tioned, all brought together by Steph before it is clear how long time it technique, but usually a great deal of King, aka Nomonet, who also takes actually takes to make a deck by the cards are. care of all the endless problems

Manteia Courier 1998-99 page 5 arising with such an enterprise. The deck will be commonly available, but The issue of Copyright a special limited luxury edition of 250, which includes a handmade book, will also be made.

**** There is one thing I would like to While collage techniques allow very kept within the circle. The same criticize regarding the collage decks. well for creating personal decks, artists, however, seem to believe that All too often, it is not immediately they have, at the same time, an the copyright laws only concern obvious, which card is which. With inherent heavy obstacle for having material on paper, since the illustra- big patience, sorting out the cards in the same decks printed in a larger tions are all presented on the suits, identifying the obvious ones, quantity. This obstacle is called The Internet and can be copied from followed by the consulting of an Law of Copyright. Particularly in USA, there. Unfortunately, it is not so. The accompanying book, or looking the where law suits seem to be a artist is responsible in any case. card up on internet, in most cases it fashionable trend and a pastime, this can be done. I know the decks are law has to be, and is taken seriously. Another thing is, how the law is personal, and that the artist herself A typical collage deck include administered and what the conse- is not in doubt. But when they are hundreds of bits of artworks quences of breaking it are. In this made available to other persons, collected from numerous sources. A country () the current well, couldn’t the card’s number and square inch from a 17th century version of the law is new (dated suit be stated? painting, a face from yesterdays June 1998). There is no specific newspaper, a bottle from a magazine mention of collages or parts of Seen from a collector’s point of view, advertisement, whatever the artist artwork, not at all; the major the privately produced packs are felt expressed her feelings and purpose is apparently to care for interesting, but also disturbing. They moods for a particular tarot card. To modern digital media like recordings, make up ideal collectors’ items live up to the law, every such piece movies, videos, computer programs because of their rarity and often has to be listed, and permission etc. But the law do also include artistic superiority; on the other asked from all the persons who own artwork, written texts, architectural hand is it very difficult to learn the copyright to the work it was works etc., even though these seem about their existence, since many taken from. In most cases it is an to be treated inferior to the elec- are not marketed widely. I’m quite impossible task just to find that tronic media. sure that there are many more person, which however doesn’t free packs, which should have been the artist from responsibility. The definition of copyright seems to mentioned here, but didn’t come to be about the same, regardless of my knowledge. Many collage artists are therefore country. When a person in this extremely frightened about the country is found guilty in breaking References: prospect of becoming a victim of a the copyright law, consciously or Arnell Ando: copyright lawsuit. If they ever dream unconsciously, the copyright holder www.ixpres.com/transformational/ of having the collage deck published, is entitled to a reasonable payment Deck orders, articles on collage decks and they need - somehow - to get hold for the unauthorized use and much other information. Deck to be viewed of all the permissions needed, or as furthermore is allowed a compen- here include Transformational Tarot and Storyteller Tarot a possible alternative, use only sation. The payment and the copyright-free material in their compensation can, however, never Sarah Ovenall: www.thefool.com works. The latter, however, being a be bigger than the economical gain Victoria Regina tarot. Also article on copyright rather restrictive asset in the artistic obtained by the infringement. In my for collage artists + further links to USA copyright rules. act. opinion that means, that the copy- right holder actually has to prove, Michele Jackson; www.ArtOfTarot.com. An alternative is to keep the art- that the infringer’s use of that tiny Michele’s tarot site has a lot of interesting work within restricted circles, where bit of the entire artwork, photo- material, including links to most of the tarot decks mentioned in this article. It is the most the chance, that it’s existence comes graphy or whatever, now used in comprehensive gateway I know to the other to the knowledge of the copyright another context, has secured him/ tarot sites and I always use Michele’s Tarot holders is small, almost nonexisting. her an economical gain. I wonder if Page as a starting point. Look also for her This is the way which apparently is many copyright holders can prove article „How I made my Collage Deck“. Besides of Michele’s own decks, you can also view chosen by some of the collage that? It is, of course, another matter Cerrithwen Genetti’s Flowers of Life Tarot here. groups mentioned before. Color if you copy an entire tarot deck and copies of the decks are only available sell it as your own, like Theo de Alexandra Genetti’s Jumbledance tarot can be to partakers in the projects; even in Laurence copied the Waite/Smith- seen at : http:// www.wheelofchange.com.jumbledance a case where an accompanying deck. Here the gain was obvious. booklet was made with so tiny Also, I have often wondered about Steph King: http://www.nomonet.net/ illustrations, that nothing can be why some copyright holders, who Artist’s Inner Vision tarot. Info and orders. identified from it, the booklet was mark their cards with a copyright

Manteia Courier 1998-99 page 6 statement, do not claim their rights, As I understand it, a collagist has about to infringe a copyright. In 1998 when others overtly publish the the copyright to her work, even if our local museum of contemporary same deck. An occurrence that she, without permission, use artwork art had, on Bloomsday, arranged a actually happens. copyrighted by other people. She marathon reading of James Joyce’s may claim her own copyright, huge literary work „Ulysses“. On Another sentence in the Danish without having paid due tribute that occasion I created a limited copyright law says, that it is allowed herself to the original artist. What a edition of 98 artistamp sheets in to quote from a published work to a law suit that could be! honor of the event. Some of the degree set by the purpose and stamps depicted color portraits of within customary limits. What else Most limited collage decks are made Joyce, based on details of rather but a quote of another artwork is by color copying, which is afterwards unsharp black and white amateur that tiny little clip in the collage? The laminated. Who can prevent anyone photos depicted in various books expression „quote“ has long been from making more copies of any about Joyce. I overworked the well-known when it comes to particular deck? A second generation photos, added color and treated movies. When, for example, a color copy will often look just as them in the computer with various director in the background shows well and sometimes even better than art style filters. bits of another director’s movie on a the first. Who can, for example, TV-screen, it is known as „a quote“. prevent anybody from downloading The event, which took place over 36 What’s the difference? the Maninni decks from the Internet, hours, was introduced by Stephen print them on a color printer and James Joyce, a grandson to James For my own benefit I discovered, sell the copies? Joyce. The major part of his intro- that I do not need to fear copyright duction dealt with how he, in his infringements when publishing my We can consider, that the questions entire life had worked to protect the various catalogs. In a catalog it is are endless and the entire issue is income he received from the work allowed to render pictures of items, out of control. The entire notion of of his grandfather. Every tiny copy- that are part of a collection. The copyright is outdated. The easy right infringement was proceeded. statement also points out, that I am accessibility through Internet and Every translation was controlled in the copyright holder of the catalog other electronic media can’t be its entirety, every cover of a Joyce in its entirety, and thus can claim my coped with by existing controlling book should be authorized. Even the rights to it. Nice to know! organizations. To set up an effective paper used for printing was checked. control is without reach. It is an Another interesting paragraph endless issue. It is an impossible task, Well, I destroyed the number one states, that it is not allowed to so isn’t it about time that a more stampsheet dedicated to him, being publish a book or work of art under realistic attitude is considered? Not lucky, that I had not already given it a title, which can be confused with alone on this aspect of copyright but to him. But is it right, that a person an already published work, carrying to the endless flow of material out with basis in copyright laws, shall be the same title. So beware of what there. We can also ask if the notion able to obtain a (very high) income you call your tarot deck! The of copyright is righteous at all? In all his life from the work his grandfa- copyright owner of the very first that regard I will mention a little ther did? Just a question! There are Celtic Tarot, for example, could get a incident where I unconsciously was such people out there, so beware! lot out of that!

Manteia Courier 1998-99 page 7 25 Years with Tarot K. Frank Jensen interviewed by Asta Erte

AE: It is now three years ago, I with folkloristic pictures from on runes, one „Livsprofil“, interviewed you about your bygone days, not the symbolism I dealing with retrospective dairy involvement with International expected. I was not at all aware, writing. Besides you have done a Mail Art and it is seventeen years that such tarot packs for gaming couple of book translations and ago you wrote the introduction to existed. The very first deck I published a total of 700 pages of my small book about tarot. You could actually use was self-made; Manteia, which you also edited have now been involved with tarot I photocopied Pamela Colman and wrote most of yourself, for 25 years; tell me about what Smith’s illustrations from a luxury inclusive reviews of 440 decks started your tarot interest and edition of one of Eden Gray’s and 400 books. Furthermore you year long passion: books, mounted them on card- contributed to the USA-based board, and hand colored them. It „APA-Tarot“ with your zine KFJ: It was more or less an took more than a month to do. I „Mulleposten“, which in 12 years accidental occurrence that I first had never seen the deck proper, so has come to more than 1000 stumbled over the word Tarot back I found my own color scheme. pages of contribution. All along in the mid-1970s. We had some This had one extra advantage, I with the creation of one of the popular radio programs, where learned the details of the cards. By largest tarot- and cartomancy people could call, having all kinds and by, some few decks showed collections in the world. You have of questions answered by a group up in esoteric bookshops: Waite- related tarot to mail art, another of learned professors from one of Smith, Crowley and decks like major interest of yours, and our big universities. One such Brotherhood of Light, Rolla initiated and documented several question was about tarot. Some- Nordic, B.O.T.A , Deutsches tarot oriented mail art projects.It how, the answer attracted my Original Tarot..... I bought them seems to be an endless list. You interest, but it took time before I all. That’s how my collection also had a job as a graphic could follow it up, since it was started. designer to earn your living. Are quite a task to find tarot literature, you never getting tired? not to speak of a tarot deck, in AE: Why did tarot attract you? Denmark at that time. The very KFJ: Many years ago, I decided first book I came across was KFJ: This question is difficult to that my aim was to document Mouni ’s „Tarot“ and true answer. At first I might have been what happened on the tarot scene to tell, I didn’t understand much of attracted by the unfamiliarity of it: during the 20th century. I think it. The confusion was so much the strange symbolic images, the such documentation is important, greater when more books became structures behind, all the aspects, otherwise it will quickly be available to me. To make sense out that could be connected with it. forgotten what really happend. of all the contradictions, I started Things so different from the Later generations will never be making notes, structured them into realistic photography and film- able to understand what all this clear patterns, and that was what making, that so far had occupied tarot fuss was about. And now we became my first book with the most of my spare time. Later on have reached the end of the obvious title of „Tarot“, the very has the historical and the artisti- century so I’ll slow down in this first in the Danish language. It cally side of tarot been of special area. Getting tired of tarot? The was published in 1975. interest to me and the main world is not tarot alone, there are purpose of my collecting. For the other things, I like to work with AE: What kind of tarot deck did practical use of tarot, only a and I did all the time. you use? couple of all these packs and very few books are necessary. AE: Can you mention articles or KFJ: It was quite impossible to reviews in Manteia, that you find a deck in at the AE: I have a list of your tarot- particularly liked to present and time my interest in tarot started. and cartomantic enterprises in why? When I finally found one and front of me: seven exhibitions, carried it home to open, I was four catalogues, several pub- KFJ: What comes immediately to astonished to find it illustrated lished books: three on tarot, one mind are the mail interviews with

Manteia Courier 1998-99 page 8 Italian tarot artists Elisabetta point for endless and superficial or less artistic tarot decks are Cassari and Amerigo Folchi and discussions without sense. presented, including many so- the survey of their tarot decks. I AE: What kind of people attended called „works in progress“, where have not seen any other like your courses and workshops? we never come to see the remain- surveys of particular tarot artist’s ing cards. Very few of the decks work. While Folchi is rather KFJ: Mainly women. About 90%, will ever be printed. An endless popular, also in American tarot maybe more. Most in their 30’s or number of consistent and inconsis- circles, Elisabetta had many bad 40’s. Housewives and lonely tent web-pages with tarot- and words from that particular side, women, who were searching for related themes, changing all the which is always afraid when contents in their lives. And some time. Everyone can express herself darker sides of life are portrayed. older women who wanted to get and does so. How can one keep a In my mind, however, Elisabetta an education in fortune-telling. A track of such, let alone document- Cassari is one of the greatest tarot maximum of 10% were seriously ing it? Collecting printed tarot artists of the 20th century. interested in tarot as such, for the decks is much easier, and even rest it was just one of their at- more easy now when everything Also my preliminary article on the tempts to find a solution to their can be bought by auction, assum- early Waite/Smith editions come problems. The following weekend ing you have the necessary money. to mind; it contained some they would attend a workshop in speculations, which proved to be flower medicine, in crystal healing AE: In my former interview with wrong, but questions were asked, or in whatever else was offered. you about the mail art aspects of and some more material has come Some attendees were even placed your life, you mentioned your to light and will be presented in in the workshop by their social tarot-based mail art projects. To the same issue as this interview. workers, just an attempt to acti- fill this portrait of your tarot vate them, which was a hopeless interests, I need to know what AE: In a period of a couple of task. But then, they found enter- those projects were? years you conducted workshops tainment and company for a and gave talks on tarot and number of hours. KFJ: Well, in four succeeding related subjects. Tell me about years, 1993-1996, I ran „Mail that! What was your experience? AE: Internet has grown these last Artist’s Tarot“, where mail artist What kind of people attended? years. What is your attitude? I from all over the world sent their How did you feel about standing remember from my mail art versions of one card or more. up as an authority which, I guess, interview with you, that your Some even contributed entire the students considered you to attitude is, that mail art has not series of majors. Each year, I be? anything to do with Internet. published an illustrated documen- tation and the collected documen- KFJ: There is an invisible barrier KFJ: Well, tarot is not mail art, tations for the four years present between teacher and student, even if the two can be combined, about 250 tarot designs. which is hard to break. Being a tarot seems to be able to connect teacher automatically makes you with anything. In general I find an authority. Or, should I say, it computers, Internet and e-mail used to be at the time I conducted being extremely helpful tools. But these classes, because the students the growth of popularity of the were of an age where they grow Internet has certainly changed Asta Erte is a Danish up with such an attitude. Later I tarot. This is another reason why I free-lance writer, have learned, from teaching young am happy to have decided to end currently living in people written communication my tarot documentation attempt at Australia. In 1983 she techniques, that it is not so any the turn of the century. It is no wrote a small book on longer. Students, who grew up longer possible for one person to after 1975-80 do not accept any follow what is going on. It would tarot, intended to authority, they do not even accept take an organization to do that. function like the small that anybody actually knows Loads of articles and deck- and accompanying books, better than they do. Even histori- book reviews are web-published. that comes with most cal facts were put to discussion, Endless and fruitless discussions tarot decks and which with none whatsoever background. about card interpretations, card never are in Danish. So I do no longer teach; I want my spreads etc. are ongoing. Card factual knowledge to be taken for readings are offered, using this or what it is, not to be a starting that deck. A large number of more

Manteia Courier 1998-99 page 9 After a pause of one year, I tarot too. Not very detailed, but as logical decks, feministic decks, entered into what became a huge correct as it can be. cross cultural decks, decks for project, the creation of „Mail business people, new age decks, Artist’s Tarot Deck 1998”, where In practical use and in the classes science fiction decks, comic book 33 artists from all over the world I taught, it ended up as a mixture character decks. But they make created each two cards, totally of the two directions. Without the good collectibles. constituting three sets of majors. Golden Dawn basics there would These have been published, not be any intuitional or psycholo- AE: What do you think of the executed by a special color gical tarot, would there? Almost American tarot scene? There are copying- and mounting technique, all decks take aspects like astrol- quite a number of people, who try in a small number and are for ogy, numerology, dualism, the to establish themselves in this sale, unfortunately for a rather four elements etc.. into consider- area, many of them academic high price due to the production ation. Maybe not Kabbalah educated. To be engaged in Tarot costs. directly, but the Kabbalistic does no longer deal with being a teaching is inherent in any of the member of an esoteric group or Besides these, I have also initiated mentioned. Without this tarot being a fortune teller at the fairs - other mail art projects, which have structure, it is not a tarot deck, but even if such still exist - but it no direct relation to tarot, but a plain cartomantic pack, regard- deals with creating a career on a reflect the same interests, like a less of what the publisher call it. high plane, psychological, as a deck of cards called „Mail Art- therapist for example.... ists’ Lenormand Cards“ The third aspect of tarot, which has taken more and more over KFJ: I find, that the original tarot AE: Tarot before 1975 was with me, at least concerning the concept is entirely lost in this. I entirely esoteric, having a foun- multitude of modern decks pub- regret that tarot has developed this dation in Golden Dawn teach- lished, is the artistic aspect. I have way. I find that there is an im- ings, the French tradition, in come to see tarot as a big collec- mense difference in American and Kabbalah and . After tion of art and art styles. Where- European mentality, even though that time a new era began, we ever else in the history of world the American way of living is could call it „the psychological art has the same series of images spreading hastily over here, as you era“, „the card reading era“, been interpreted artistically so know. The new way of tarot could „the second tarot renaissance“ or different? I guess that this is the only have emerged from USA. I whatever. What kind of tarot are major reason for why I am collect- don’t think we can really compre- you into? ing all these tarot decks. It is hend that strange escapistic certainly not for using them for mindset unless we grew up with it. KFJ: Something in between and a the purpose they, perhaps, were Rituals, affirmations, prayers, third, I would say. When my created for. At the same time, I’m daily card readings, High Priest- interest started, the only attitude I embarrassed that so many decks esses, certifications, your tarot became aware of was the Golden are so bad, artistically seen. When card for the day, the year, all that Dawn teachings with all its it comes to tarot decks for actual is not our sort of stuff, or at least correspondences to Kabbalah, use, 3-4 decks would do. First and it is not mine. But things are astrology, numerology and what- foremost the Waite-Smith and the changing here too, now youngsters ever. That is what my first book Crowley/Harris deck. And a grow up being heftily influenced deals with, all the traditional couple more; here does the art not by an American life-style, impos- meanings. After a while I discov- mean so much, but rather the ted upon them by superficial TV- ered that tarot could also be assignment of symbols. serials and bad movies, which different, inviting to a psycholo- count for 95% of the cultural gical and an intuitive approach. AE: What is your opinion of the influence, they are exposed to. So I had to write another book, many, shall we call them „special this time based upon Jungian tarot packs“, published now. AE: Wouldn’t you like to take part concepts. Meanwhile I had also Those with historical, in one of the great American tarot learned something about the mytological and folkloristic conventions? history of tarot and had my first themes? apprehension, which I adopted KFJ: Yes and No. It would, of from all the historical nonsense KFJ: Fundamentally, I find it course, be a great experience, and most esoteric writers came up ridiculous when all the possible there certainly are some people I with, corrected. So my second concepts and ideologies are hung would like very much to meet in book deals with the history of up upon tarot, them being mytho- person. On the other hand, I am

Manteia Courier 1998-99 page 10 afraid it would be a big disap- workshops offered, but my clear mission, that they are helping pointment. I’ll definitely find it opinion is, that it is mainly the people but what they do is exploit- much too commercial, what I’m same people, who attend, and very ing psycic unstable persons and afraid that tarot has been turned often do the prominent tarot uneasy teenagers, who are willing into. I find the way these events persons attend each others’ victims. are organized rather stupid, for workshops. There exist a kind of example, when more of the so- urge to mutual support, and you AE: Tell me about your engage- called „presentations“ - what we will almost never ever hear any ment with the American APA- would call talks - are scheduled at American tarotist criticize Tarot? the same hours, so you have to another’s product or concept, make a choice all the time; if two however stupid it may be. You KFJ: I joined APA-Tarot at the of your favorites are given the have to be solidary; who knows end of 1987. I became aware of its same hours, the choice is difficult. when you need support yourself? existence from The Winged I consider this being inconsiderate The tarotists buy and review each Chariot, a small tarot newsletter towards the people, who use their others decks and books, but real published by Tracey Hoover. At time to travel and prepare talks criticism is rare. Political correct- that time I was not very used to and in most cases are not paid for ness is a must. write in English except for letters, it. I would feel very bad being a so it was quite a challenge to go speaker at such an event. I, for If you really have to make a living into this as the only non-American example, might attract an audi- out of tarot, it is hard work: contributor. I did it particularly in ence, just for being a foreigner, travelling, presenting your con- the hope of finding new sources and in that case some other cepts at symposiums and confer- for American decks, after a presenter would lack an audience ences, making and selling your collecting friend of mine, Norman for that reason. That’s not reason- own products, writing, giving Handelsman, who supplied me able. The only explanation I can workshops, signing books. All the with most of my American packs, see for why this is accepted is, while you are struggling to find had unexpectedly died during a that people don’t come to learn, new ways not already tread. You visit to Europe. It turned out, that they come for socialization. The join the organizations to get „APA-Tarot“, however, wasn’t biggest events of this kind are certificates, to prove that you are that great source of new decks as I arranged by groups or societies, qualified... qualified for what? Is had expected. Instead I got more which can only be called commer- this really what tarot is about? I and more involved in the discus- cial enterprises. They set them- wouldn’t be happy with that sort sions, and with my collection I selves up as authorities and issue of life. had the opportunity to be able to qualification certificates to those, present quite a number of material who are willing to pay. No, that is AE: What do you think of the unknown to most other contribu- not my cup of tea. 900-phone line consultings? They tors. All in all, my contributing exist in Europe too, in France zine which was named Mulle- AE: How should it then be? and Italy for example, but not in posten, after our old cat Mulle, the same scale as in USA? who lived to be 23 years old, came KFJ: The conventions should be a to a total of more than 1000 mean to spread new thoughts and KFJ: The so-called psychic lines, pages, the biggest issue of communicate new research, but as where people make calls at exorbi- Mulleposten being of 78 pages. I have seen it from the material I tant minute prices .... In my Looking back at it, APA-Tarot have gathered, most tarotists tend opinion it is a sick society where and Mulleposten do also reflect to keep their own ideas close to such ridiculous enterprises can the increasing possibilities of the body so that they can not be find such a response, and are able communication techniques; from used to the advantage of others. A to continue year after year. It is early typewriters and rather bad real competitive commercial situa- not a passing trend, but a way of photocopiers to desk top publish- tion. income for quite a number of ing equipment and digital color people. I can only compare it to copying technique. With my many connections to the the pranksters, who sold patented American tarot community, as it is medicines at the fairs in the early AE: Now you are no longer a often called, I have however also days of USA. It’s only for the contributor to APA-Tarot. Why? noticed, that even if tarot seems to money. What an unworthy way to Does it still exist? Was the turn of be a widespread enterprise, it is a earn one’s living. Some of the the century also the predestined hard job to make a living out of it 900-readers do their best to end of your retreat from that over there. There are a lot of convince critics that they have a enterprise?

Manteia Courier 1998-99 page 11 KFJ: APA-Tarot does still exist at Tarot. But still there might have have developed an allergy towards the time of this writing. Or at least been an APA-Tarot for a while every letter coming from a public it is postulated still to be in longer if the coordinator had not instance. existence. No, it was not a long been neglectful at the same time as settled plan to leave now and she didn’t take the necessary steps The other reason was, that there definitely not the way it was to let another person take over, was simply not a sufficient num- meant to develope. During the last when her interest was diminishing. ber of visitors. We appeared in the years, however, APA-Tarot, I feel that in USA there is a tourist brochures, the museum stagnated, so I see no longer any certain prestige connected with lists and wherever else such things reason for taking part. The con- such a task, however badly it is are advertised, but this did not tributors became fewer and fewer; cared for. Said in this relation, I bring a reasonable number of most news reached Internet long have never considered the distri- visitors. And most of those, who before they were mentioned here, bution task being one that big as it actually came, were not really if they ever were. With the restric- is was said to be. Wasn’t it for interested; it was just another ted membership the discussions postage problems, I wouldn’t sight on their list they could tick ran in the same circles, with mind haven taking it over. But this off. Almost none took the time to nothing unexpected happening. was never ever suggested and read the texts or whatever else Adding to this, that the coordina- none of the other other contribu- explained the exhibited items. The tor, the person, who is responsible tors offered to do it, whether them great task of setting it up each for collecting and mailing the being afraid of the work involved year was not worth that. collated contributions, after many or of veneration toward the years of blameless taking care of coordinator. I don’t know. AE: Are you disappointed? it, suddenly completely neglected deadlines and the tradition which Anyway, this era is over, but the KFJ: No, it couldn’t be otherwise. was build up. I couldn’t otherwise entire bulk of the APA-Tarot I am only grateful that I need not but to consider it a dying project. issues, which fills more than a take part in the tarot scene for the So I suggested that instead of this meter on my shelves, constitute an cause of earning my living. slow starving to , we put invaluable documentation of the together forces to create a worthy tarot scene during the 1990’s. AE: What way will tarot take in final issue to appear around the the future? Is the interest growing turn of the century. But the few AE: So you stopped your APA- or waning? remaining active contributors Tarot contribution, but you did apparently prefer to mail their also stop with the yearly exhibi- KFJ: Tarot is here to stay for a now more and more private letters tions in SPILKAMMERET which long time. I’m not in doubt of that. to each other, through the coordi- you ran for seven years. They But neither am I in doubt, that the nating person, who delay them for were not overtaken by the interest and also the mass publica- months. That is the state at the Internet. Why did you stop? tion adventure has topped. Tarot time of this interview, and I can’t does not interest very many young accept it. I would feel ridiculous KFJ: There are two reasons for people. It can’t cope with the huge by accepting the way it turned out. that. The most direct was, that and overwhelming offerings of This issue of Manteia Courier was the local taxation committee music, movies, computer games or until recently thought of also wouldn’t allow me to deduct the whatever else our culture is being a contribution to APA- factual expenses, they only wanted presenting today. Its worth to Tarot, but now instead it will be to tax the income. The enterprise note, that the majority of tarotists mailed directly to the few remain- was never intended to bring a are at least middle-aged. The ing active contributors. surplus but just to balance. But production boom is most likely that’s not a business, a business over; US Games Systems has AE: Isn’t that a sad story? has to give a surplus within five gained a kind of monopoly, and, years. And when it is not a busi- honestly, tarot will loose in KFJ: Yes, it is. All the energy put ness, no deductions. So I had to interest if the new publications into that enterprise by many pay back the deducted amount for from US Games Systems are the people for about 14 years cer- a period of five years. I took the only available. I believe, that in a tainly deserved a better end. In my case to a higher court, but it didn’t near future numerous tarot decks opinion the competition from the change anything, except that will be made by private persons Internet can not be overlooked and meanwhile the law was changed, for private use, now color repro- in the longer run there is no future so I only had to pay back for the duction facilities are so easily for such a publication as APA- last three years. After that story I accessible. These packs will

Manteia Courier 1998-99 page 12 however never reach the big tarot history, the history about the AE: Your collection includes market, even if they will be Donaldisation of tarot. At the many early tarot decks of the new presented on the Internet. same time, I will say, that if that wave, i.e. those decks published had not happened, I wouldn’t have in USA in small editions in the AE: So far, most of what you told been involved with the tarot for 25 1970. Decks that even in USA are dealt with the American tarot years now. rare today. How did you manage scene. How about Europe? to acquire them at such an early AE: This interview has revealed, time? You must have had a very KFJ: The interest in Europe for that you have mixed feelings close network to supply you? card reading and terapeutic tarot toward the American tarot scene? does hardly gain a steady influ- KFJ: Most of them came from the ence, the majority of people KFJ: Yes, I admit that, but don’t same source, Norman Handels- buying tarot decks being the same misunderstand me, I know very man. He was an indefatiguable relatively narrow circle of new age many American tarotists which collector not only of tarot, but all minded people, people who are have been a part of my tarot kinds of playing cards. Somehow also buying trendy crystals, occupation for many years, whom he knew about what was going on colored candles and healing I all appreciate very much. What I around all over the scene in those utensils of every imaginable kind. try to point out is, that modern early days and he always bought But their interest is superficial and tarot is an American phenomenon, extra copies to offer interested lost, as soon as a new trend shows which, like all other American parts. Unfortunately, I was an up. phenomena like Disney characters, rather inexperienced collector at Star Wars, Burgers... have influ- that time. I neglected, for ex- Germany is the only country, enced Europe to which this way of ample, different editions of the where the American way of tarot thinking is rather alien. essentially same pack, like when for a period had a certain re- Fergus Hall’s illustrations came sponse, which can be seen from AE: You have hundreds of card with different titles. I am still some of the most popular decks decks. How do you organize short of having them packed as which were printed in versions them? Are you able to find any The Exorcists Tarot and The with German captions and the tarot deck I would like to see right Devil’s Tarot. literature was translated. now? AE: I have seen that you state An European tarot tradition is KFJ: Yes, I guess so. Within that your collection is the largest certainly needed to counterweight minutes. Lately I have made some known collection of cartomancy- the American way of tarot, but rearrangements of my collection. I packs and 20th century tarot except for France and Italy there don’t mount the cards like most packs. Is it so? is not an existing serious tarot playing card collectors do, mine tradition in Europe. Even if the are still kept in their boxes if such KFJ: Phrased in that way, yes, I most well known esoteric tarot are provided. When writing the think so. It is a bit like playing decks were created in England, “standard pattern” article, which with words. First, there are not so there does not exist a living will appear in the same issue of many known collections. Collec- English tarot tradition. Most of Manteia Courier as your inter- tors tend to keep the scope of their the rather few modern English view, I searched out all standard collection a secret. Out of those tarot decks are based upon my- patterns, so now I have, for which are known, only Stuart R. thology of various kinds, Celtic example, all Marseilles pattern Kaplan’s collection has a scope and Arthurian for example, and decks, regardless of origin, in extending my own, particularly they have not very much to do drawers by themselves. Major because his business brought him with genuine tarot traditions. publishers like USGames and Lo the opportunities and means to Scarabeo are likewise stored collect a large number of antique The origin of tarot is European; separately and drawers or boxes tarot decks from before 1900. the history of tarot up to the are established for other natural Regarding 20th Century decks I 1960’s is entirely an European groups of decks, all Folchi decks do, however, have most decks history, but the European history or all feminist decks, for example. listed in his 3 volumes, and quite a ended the day Stuart R. Kaplan The remaining are kept by country lot more. Since I have also col- bought the rights to print the of publication. This arrangement lected cartomantic packs from the Waite/Smith tarot from the heirs means, that a maximum of a few very beginning of my collecting of Waite. Ever after has the boxes or drawers shall be looked career, where such in general were history of tarot been an American into when a certain deck is wanted. neglected by collectors, I have

Manteia Courier 1998-99 page 13 also many early cartomantic library or some such organization. I’ll still buy those new packs that packs. That’s my basis for that It could certainly bring in a decent interests me. I will, however, no statement. Certainly, there might amount of money if split up, now longer strive to get hold of every be collectors, who in their closed where collecting tarot decks seems new deck. I do not have that aim cabinets store a lot more than that. to have become fashionable. It is, any longer and, honestly, there is All the older decks offered for sale however, not a concern of mine to quite a lot of trash around these in auctions or otherwise must be get as much money out of it as days. I have already slowed down bough by someone. possible. Since there is no interest with regard to acquiring new- in this country for like collections, published books for my library. AE: What is going to happen with it will probably be placed abroad, They need to have something new your collection? You have now if it is at all possible to make such to tell, if I shall buy them, and used 25 years to bring it all an arrangement. most of them don’t. It’s all the together. I have recently heard same things served on different that Stuart R. Kaplan plan to AE: After what you have said so plates. While taking it easy, I’ll make a final exhibition of his far in this interview, does that still follow the scene, collection, and that the collection mean that you will stop entirely to will be offered for sale after his collect tarot decks and literature AE: Will you, finally, reveal what death. What will you do? from January 1st, 2000? the „K“ in you name stands for?

KFJ: Yes, that is a big problem. KFJ: No, not entirely. I’ll still try KFJ: No, I believe that there is Fundamentally, I want it all to be to get hold of that 20th century only one person in the tarot world kept together in some place where material which is on my list of who knows it and I am pretty it can be of use for future re- wants. The Internet auction sure, she will keep it for herself, searchers, like in a university opportunities might help with that. because I asked her to.

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Manteia Courier 1998-99 page 14 Standard tarot patterns

I have been aware that many a The Marseilles pattern did, however, tarotist refer to all early European not conquer the entire marked for tarot deck patterns as being a tarot decks. Several of the other “Marseille-type”deck, regardless of local patterns were likewise consis- what regional pattern they are tent and were spread geographically talking about. Likewise they con- though not in the same degree. For sider Grimaud’s Tarot Marseille, as it a modern tarotist’s eyes, who only was “revised” by Paul Marteaux and cares for the symbolism, they may all presented in his book from 1949, as look the same, but they are not. being the model for all the quite different and much older patterns. To When tarot spread in Europe to prevent confusion, I will in this countries, which did not traditionally article define the special traits of the use the so-called Italian or Latin most widespread of the early suitmarks (Wands, Cups, Swords and European tarot patterns. Coins), but rather the French suitmarks (respectively Clubs, It is necessary to know, that the Hearts, Spades and Diamonds), the traditional tarot decks were not Italian suitmarks were substituted by created for esoteric or divinatory French suitmarks. In many places purposes, but for playing the game of was the traditional Italian tarot tarot in one of its numerous local iconography likewise substituted by versions. The names of the patterns imagery of every possible contents: do for the most refer to the geo- animals, family-life scenes, theatre- graphical area where the particular and ballet scenes, war scenes and so deck pattern (it would be called a on. This could be done since, what Marseilles pattern. Camoin 1760. design nowadays) originated and was matters when playing the game of used locally. The most successful tarot, is the numerical value of the cardmakers exported their local trump cards (the majors) and not products to other regions and even the iconography. That too, however, to other countries. Some of the is another story. patterns became so popular by the players that cardmakers in other Tarot de Marseille regions or other countries started This particular pattern got its name their own production of the same at a rather late time in its history, pattern. The oldest and one of the when quite a number of cardmakers most successful of these patterns in Marseilles had adopted it for their was the Marseille Tarot, which productions. It was, however, so probably originated in Marseille in popular with the card players that it France, but soon was taken over by was also manufactured in several numerous other cardmakers in other towns in France and in several countries, who even ex- Switzerland. It was derived from the ported their Marseilles pattern earliest printed tarot decks and was decks to Marseilles, to France in established as a defined pattern at general and to several other coun- the beginning of the 18th century. tries. Most other standard tarot patterns were strongly influenced by the The Marseilles pattern was thus Marseilles deck, even if they all had geographically widespread and their own characteristics, as will be somewhere along the road, at the seen in the following. Most end of the 18th century, it met Marseilles tarot decks have French Antoine Court de Gebelin, who captions, even those manufactured in Marseilles pattern. Grimaud ca. 1930 declared it being the secret book of Italy. Some early packs have La the Egyptian God, Thoth. But that is Grandprêtresse and Le Grandprêtré tions can be seen) are that another story, which several authors instead of Papessa and Pope. Some carries a loin cloth and is bare chested. already have written about. characteristic traits (even if devia- has a face in profile and The

Manteia Courier 1998-99 page 15 Angel/ has a trumpet with a of 19th century, later were Italian Packs of the modern type have been flag. captions adopted. The early packs manufactured by Viassone (Turin), had roman numerals, but with an Armanino (Roma), Solesio (Genoa). The established Marseilles pattern unusual placement in the corner (or in the 19th and 20th century. In the was made by several cardmakers all diagonal corners) of the card, as well 20th century were packs also made over France in the first half of 18th as they often a so-called “turned by Modiano (Trieste), Massenghini century. One of the earliest packs over edge” i.e. the backing paper was (Bergamo) and Dal Negro (Treviso). comes from Jean Noblet, 1721. folded over and glued onto the front of the card. Tarot Bolognese The Marseille pattern was widely This pattern, which is connected available in France in the second half Decks with Italian captions were for with cardmakers around Bologne, of the 19th century, at the time example printed by Seravalle, has a long history, since it is known when French occultists, like Eliphas Piedmont (1736), Jean Payen, Avignon as early as from the end of the 15th Lévi and Papus were writing about (1743) and by Solesio, Genua (ca. century. tarot. This may have been the reason 1870). for why this particular pack after- The pattern exists with both single wards has been declared of being the At the end of the 19th century the and double figured court cards. Tarot only true tarot pattern by devoted formerly whole figured pattern was Bolognese was the very first tarot occultists. From time to time the substituted by a double faced image pattern which, as early as the second ancient Marseilles pattern was to facilitate card playing. While the half of the 18th centur, introduced “improved” or “rectified” by well- double sided faces of ordinary double figured courts and at the meaning persons, like when Paul playing cards do not appear so same time were the trump cards/ Marteau of Grimaud in 1930 pre- strange to us, the half part of a majors given arabic numbers. Four of sented a reconstructed and recol- traditional tarot major image does the cards, , , ored Tarot de Marseille, which is the often leave a somewhat ridiculous The Pope and The Female Pope were Grimaud version, we know today. impression upon all except tarot in 1725 substituted by four spear- Marteau’s version is, however not game players. carrying unnumbered “Moors” based upon an older Marseilles (Maurere). pattern but on a Tarot Besancon During the second half of the 19th pattern (see later), originally printed century did the Piedmont pattern The Bolognese pack has only 62 by a cardmaker by the name of stabilize to become the only surviv- cards. The numerical values of 2,3, 4 Arnoult. Marteau substituted the ing Italian tarot pattern, which is still and 5 in each suit are not used in Besancon pack’s Juno/Jupiter cards in use over all Italy, whenever the the Bolognese version of the card with the Pope/Popess cards and card game played demands a 78 card game, and thus omitted. The num- restored the colors to fit with the pack. The captions on the modern bering of the majors deviate from traditional Marseilles deck. packs are all in Italian (or, in some the usual standard. The captions are cases, there are no captions at all). either in French or Italian. Lately Philippe Camoin of the (Bagato) is unnumbered. The Devil Camoin family, cardmakers since the 17th century, has in a promotional attempt made a likewise “rectifica- tion”.

Tarot Piemontese The Piemontese pattern is clearly influenced by the Marseille pattern. The first known packs dates back to the early 18th century (one was made by the cardmaker Dodal in the first years of the 18th century).

Some characteristics of the Piemont pattern are that The Devil has a face in front of his torso. The Magician is a Mountebank, who is equipped with a dicebox instead of a wand. The Death/La Morte is named (in the Marseiles pack it is unnamed). La Carrozza () has large wheels. has wings and the legs of The Hanged Man are uncrossed. The pattern was printed with captions in French until the beginning Piemontese pattern, 18th century Piemontese pattern, Viassone, modern

Manteia Courier 1998-99 page 16 have all made Bologne packs in the removed. The trumps/majors in the 20th century. older versions are marked with Roman numerals I-XX. Two cards Tarot Milanese are unnumbered, The Fool and a card This pattern was first printed by the called “La Powerta”. The Empress, The cardmaker Gumpenberg in Milano in Pope and The Devil are substituted by the first part of the 19th century. respectively a female figure called “La The designs (by C. Della Rocca) are Costanza”, a Ship and a Tower, The the artist’s personal interpretation of Hanged Man is hanged by the neck. the Marseilles pattern. The deck was Judgement depicts Jupiter. The World later reproduced by other card- depicts Atlas. The four Pages/Jacks makers, for example Armanino in are female. The Sicilian Tarot has Genua (1880), Seravalle in Piedmont some traits in common with the (late 19th century) and by several Minchiate pack. The sequence of the other cardmakers, thus constituing it cards is unusual and the size of the as a kind of standard pattern, which cards is small. became widespread in the 19th The older versions of this pack were around 1830 replaced by a revised design, which was produced until the 1960’s. The new pack had in the beginning 63 cards but in 1863 was an added to carry the

Bolognese pattern, ca 1810

Sicilian Tarot, Concetta Campione 1950’s.

Milanese Patttern, ca. 1845.

century, whereafter it disappeared. tax stamp, thus making up a 64 card Some modern reprints are still pack. At the same time the numbers available. were changed to Arabic, and La Poverta was renamed Miseria. Sicilian Tarot The Sicilian Tarot originated around Modern packs were manufactured 1660 and was manufactured up to by Murari, Bari (1890-1944), the 1960’s. It was a purely regional Concetta Campione, Catania (1950- Moor. Bolognese, Viassone (modern) pattern, which was never really used 65) and Modiano, Trieste (until about outside Sicily. The earliest decks, 1965). has furry trousers, The Moon has a which were meant for four card full face. players, had 78 cards but this was Besancon Tarot later reduced to 63 cards meant for This pattern is, apart from a few Viassone (Turin), Modiano ( Trieste), 3 players, which became the game minor details, based upon the Cambissa (Trieste) , Dal Negro variant popular in Sicily. In the Marseille pattern, except that The (Treviso) and Plastic Cards, (Milan) reduced pack are the aces, the 2s,3s Papessa and The Pope are substituted and 4s (except the ) by respectively Juno and Jupiter. This

Manteia Courier 1998-99 page 17 change took place around the begin- substituted by Bacus (Bacchus), the ning of the 18th century, probably God of wine. The Hanged Man is for religious/political reasons. In the hanged by the neck. is eastern part of France, in parts of carrying a scroll with the title “Fama Germany and in Switzerland were Sol”. The Devil is seen in left profile. is substituted by a card called “La Foudre” (The Lightening), depicting a man beneath a lightning struck tree. shows a church tower and a man with a compass. The Moon depicts a woman with a distaff. has a man on horseback carrying a banner. The World has a naked woman standing on a globe which depicts the sun, the moon, stars and a landscape. The Fool is numbered XXII.

The Belgian pattern was printed by cardmakers like Jan Galler, Bruxelles (1738-60) and Vandenborre, Bruxelles (1762-1803). Swiss pattern, J.Müller & Cie. 1930s. The Minchiate Pattern Belgian Tarot This shall only be mentioned shortly Together with the Marseilles-, here. It is very easily distinguished Besancon- and Swiss pattern is the from any other pattern by having an Belgian pattern the only Italian extended number of majors (trump suited standard tarot pattern that cards) so the entire pack has no less was used widely outside Italy. Even if than 97 cards. The pattern origi- Besancon, Grimaud nated in Florence as early as the first part of the16th century. It was Juno and Jupiter selected to substi- spread to Genua and to Sicily. It was tute the Popess and Pope while, for still produced in Genua by Solesio in example, in Belgium other characters the 1930’s. A couple of modern were chosen. versions have been published afterwards, latest (1999) is an The captions on majors and courts edition with text and illustrations by of the Becanson-pattern are in most Brian Williams published by Inner editions in French, but often with Traditions, USA. spelling mistakes. The Devil has furry trousers and torso, The Moon has a Literature full face. This article is only a brief survey over the most well-known patterns. Swiss Tarot For an extended study can be Like the Besancon Tarot has the recommended: Swiss Tarot, which first appeared • Sylvia Mann: All Cards on the Table around 1860, Jupiter and Juno Deutsches Spielkarten-Museum & instead of Pope and Popess. Even if Jonas Verlag, Germany 1990. several tarot patterns were manufac- • Stuart R. Kaplan’s Encyclopedia of tured in Switzerland, is this the only Tarot. vol. I-II-III. exclusive Swiss pattern. Fundamen- tally is it a redrawing of the Besan- Editions Solleone, Lo Scarabeo and Il con tarot. It is often called the “JJ Belgian pattern, Vandenborre, reprint 1974. Meneghello, all Italian manufacturers. Tarot”, referring to the initial letters have published reproductions of in Juno/Jupiter. As every tarotist will the pattern carries traits from several most traditional patterns. know, it was this the pattern that of the other patterns, it has also started Stuart R. Kaplan’s career in numerous distinctive characteristics. the world of tarot. The Popess is substituted by a card The pattern is still in print. called “L’Espagnol Capitano Eracasse” (“Eracasse” is the name of the Spanish captain known from the Comedia dell’Arte). The Pope is

Manteia Courier 1998-99 page 18 Decks and books Books For a study of traditional European tarot (some call it that can do it all kabbalistic) prior to the 1970’s, you should get hold of: Looking back upon my 25 often superficial ones, while • Arthur E. Waite: The Pictorial Key years with tarot and after more interesting concepts were to the Tarot • Crowley: The Book of Thoth having reviewed hundreds of completely overlooked and • Oswald Wirth: The Tarot of the decks and read hundreds of forgotten. For example, what Magicians (USA 1985) book on the subject, I can only happened to one of the decks I • Dion Fortune: The Mystical say, that if you want to work have listed below, John Starr Qabalah. England 1972 seriously with tarot, you don’t Cooke’s T - The New Tarot for • Robert Wang: The Kabbalistic Tarot.USA 1983. need all that. the Aquarian Age, one of the • Lon Milo Duquette: early decks that cleared the Tarot of Ceremonial Magic. I have, of course, often been path for the American tarot USA 1995. asked to recommend tarot renaissance of the 1970’s. The • Gareth Knight: literature and tarot decks.At pack was reprinted in 1993 in •The Magical World of the Tarot, England 1991. the time I conducted tarot an excellent edition by John • The Treasure House of Images. workshops, I used to hand out Starr Cooke’s son and daugh- England 1986 a list. This changed slightly ter-in-law, even with two of • Chick & Sandra Tabata Cicero: from time to time but not John Cooke’s other major sets • Self Initiation into the Golden essentially. My own favorites added to it. I have never ever Dawn Tradition.USA 1995 • Experiencing the Kabbalah are fundamentally the same as heard it mentioned since. It USA 1997 they were in my early days of was not a mass market product • The New Golden Dawn Ritual tarot involvement and only few but an original concept of Tarot (USA 1991) book have been added through- much more interest than the • David Hulse: The Key of it All 1-2. out the years. majority of numerous modern USA 1993-94 (this is an immense -1200 pages - work of correspon- trivial decks and also a histori- dences between all thinkable Following is a list as I would cal pack. Could the reason be, esoteric- and mythological make it today. I have only that it never came under the systems. Vol.. II includes tarot, included items that are com- wings of US Games Systems but it is highly recommended to monly available from booksell- Inc., like many of the other get hold of both volumes). ers or libraries and have omit- packs from the 1970’s? Two ted rare books, limited editions other big scaled enterprises I To avoid all the nonsense many and the like. came to think of were two tarot writers postulate about cartomantic systems: the the origin of tarot you can Speculating about what should Star+Gate pack by Carson consult: be included in the list, I came and Geer (1979) and Rowena • Ronald Decker, Michael Dummett and Thierry Depaulis: to think of the very many tarot Pattee Kryder’s Gaia Matrix A Wicked Pack of Cards, decks, which were popular for Oracle (1990). Well, they were England 1996 a short time and then after a not tarot decks, and had some • Eckhard Graf: Mythos Tarot, few years completely disap- flaws, but, definitely, the con- Germany 1989. peared. The modern tarot cepts were well thought out. • Cynthia Giles: Tarot: History, world is certainly unstable! Mystery, Lore USA 1992. The tarot scene is also a The following list shall not be • Stuart R. Kaplan: Encyclopedia of Tarot, vol. I-III, USA 1978-90. consumers market. Buy and seen as a result of a long con- discard whenever something sideration; it is just what comes If your have a psychological new, (but hardly different) to my mind, writing this. approach to tarot, these books show up. I also wondered are the best you can find: about why, after all, some • Irene Gad: Tarot and Individuation. tarot decks stayed on the scene, USA 1994.

Manteia Courier 1998-99 page 19 • Salie Nichols: Jung and Tarot Tarot decks The following are not exactly USA 1980 tarot decks for esoteric- or • Robert V. O’Neil: Tarot Symbolism card-reading purposes, but are USA 1986. Now the list of my choice of tarot decks. To work with inevitable artistic expressions of the tarot concept: If you are to the American traditional European tarot, I wouldn’t be without: • Visconti-Sforza tarot way of tarot, there are numer- • Tarot Röhrig ous books to choose between. • Waite-Smith (Rider’s pack) I prefer to use the 1993-reprint • Haindl Tarot It is very difficult since the list instead of any of the Rider- or • Gli Arcani di Elisabetta (Cassari) is endless, but here are my bids: USGames packs. No, my early • Kashmir Tarot (Nicolaas van Beck) • Mary Kathrine Greer: edition packs are for restricted • Renato Guttoso Tarot Tarot Constellations 1987 use only. Tarot for Yourself 1984 • Book of Thoth/Crowley Finally a few selected decks in • Gail Fairfield: • Oswald Wirth Tarot different categories: Choice Centered Tarot • Tarot of Ceremonial Magic USA 1982/1990 (Duquette) Mythology : • The Golden Dawn Ritual Tarot • Legend Arthurian Deck (Sandra Tabatha Cicero) Feminist: For the most, books written for • Motherpeace (colored version) a particularly deck to make up • Minchiate Fiorentine. I have always wondered why the The Dark Side: a book/deck set are not my cup Minchiate pack was not used by • The Shadow Tarot (Linda Falorio) of tea. They are mainly a tarotists with its extended major Photographic: rehash of standard phrases arcana. This may change now • Bea Nettles’ Brian Williams’ new deck is Mountain Dream Tarot has never adjusted once more to a par- been overtaken ticular deck. There are, of published. It has, however, not yet reached my desk, so until Oddities: course, exceptions, and one then it will be one of the old • Necromantic Tarot that comes to my mind, is Minchiate packs (also available (Leilah Waddell) Cynthia Giles’ book for The in an excellent reprint by Il Egyptian: Meneghello) • Deutsches Original Tarot, Russian Tarot of St. Peters- published from 1920 until about burg. 1970. Folchi: If you are entirely new to tarot Decks from the 1970-revival • I want to mention at least one deck and do not have any idea of • John Star Cooke & Rosalind by Amerigo Folchi and it will be Sharpe:T- The New Tarot Il Tarocchi di Amerigo Folchi, what it is and if you are the for the Aquarian Age. the one deck of his made card reading type (I doubt if USA 1970, reprinted under the entirely after his own ideas. But, this is a signalment of anyone title of The Word of One of course, I could have chosen reading this), you could consult Tarot in 1993. The reprint „The Garden of Priapus“, just to • Rosemary Ellen Guiley: includes Cooke’s Atlantean Tarot provoke. The Mystical Tarot. USA 1991 and Medieval Tarot as well. • Rachel Pollack: The Complete • Book of Thoth, Jerry Kay Illustrated Guide to Tarot, • Yeager Tarot (original edition) USA 1999. • The New Tarot (Hurley and Horler)

Manteia Courier 1998-99 page 20 Early Waite-Smith editions © K.Frank Jensen 1999

For the last couple of years I have worked on identifying different early editions of the so-called Rider-Waite tarot, which I prefer to call Waite-Smith to let Pamela Colman Smith, the artist, get her due respect. After all, the English publishing house Rider has only been responsible for a minor part of the total number of packs of this best selling tarot, published continously throughout the past Dotted screen (Pamela-B,C,D,E) 90 years. Linear screen (Pamela-A) drawing, which afterwards was a mechanical added tint was often The first Waite-Smith edition was transferred to the lithographic used by adapting a special published by Rider in December stone. The black line print was prepared grained or lined paper, 1909. The deck of cards could be then filled in with colors by which could create the necessary obtained separately or boxed with overprinting it with the appro- dots or lines, giving the impres- a card sized edition of A.E. priate number of color stones, sion of a shade. Waite’s book: The Key to the each with its own color. Shades in Tarot, being Fragments of a a certain color were made by We do not know to what extent Secret Tradition under the Veil. allowing the white of the paper (or Pamela Colman Smith was This first edition of „The Key“ colors from a former layer of involved in the printing process of was dated 1910, and included a print) to shine through the the tarot deck. In November 1909 bibliography (pgs.170-194). A overprinting. The preparation of in a letter to Alfred Steglitz she, second edition of the Waite-Smith the stones for such tinting could however, mentioned that she had tarot deck (which is said to be of be done by hand, but after c.1880, made the illustrations for the tarot superior quality, at least concer- deck „a big job for little money“. ning the quality of cardboard adding „I’ll send you a pack .. used), was published soon after, Sun printed in colour by lithography... in April 1910. without undulating probably very badly!....“. At the line same time she offered Steglitz Printing technique (Pamela-B some of the originals for sale. The technique used for printing only) This indicates that she (and not the first editions of the Waite- Waite) was in possession of the Smith tarot was color-lithography. originals and also that she had not In the last decades of the 19th much belief that the printing century, color printing developed process would reproduce her in several ways, combining earlier Sun with works in an acceptable way. She color printing methods and undulating could have made the material for experiments took place to substi- line the printing, by either drawing tute the manual work by mechani- Pamela directly on the stones, or by using cal aids, thus making printing A,C,D,E the transfer method. If she didn’t, easier. The fundamental process another person had to redraw her used one lithographic stone to illustrations, and add the coloring print the black hand drawn line Sun with tints (by hand or by the mecha- art and lettering, which could heavy nical process). The use of a either be drawn directly on the undulating transcriber would explain the stone by the artist (or by a tran- line and many differences in the artwork scriber), or a special prepared extra line Pamela-C between the editions. paper could be used for the only Manteia Courier 1998-99 page 21 Strange enough is The Sun here misnumbered XVIII (!). The undulated line is also present in the first edition of Waite’s book: The Illustrated Key to the Tarot, published first in 1911 by Rider, London, as well as in Theo de Laurence’s 1918 pirated edition of Waite’s text, published in USA under de Laurence’s name. The undulated line can be found in most, except one of the Rider editions (up to 1971) and from 1971 in the editions from US Games Systems Inc.

Other obvious differences between

Roses & Lilies back Crackled back the editions can be seen by • the placement of the title and the punctuation after it • the lines in banner There is no reason to believe that since this card most clearly shows • the Sunflower on the right side, Pamela didn’t know what the the differences between the edit- .... just to mention a few diffe- printed result would be. She ions. Also to was paid rences regarding The Sun. For the certainly knew what could be done particular attention during my packs in their entirety, the devia- within the limitations of the comparison of the packs, because tions are numerous. printing technique of the time and the mechanical method used for her artwork did undoubtedly tinting the colors is particularly Following identification traits provide for that. She was used to clearly visible in the two persons have also been taken into account work with the printers from her depicted at The Lovers, and • the size of the cards illustration jobs and her own because the criss-cross hatching • the thickness of the card pack publications, including her (which is a hand-made tinting) in (= quality of cardboard used). broadsheets. She would also know the mountain of the same card, Both measures can deviate a little that if the transfer to the printing makes this card particularly fit for after how much the deck is worn medium was done by a transcriber, comparison of tiny details. and what trimming process was it wouldn’t be exactly like she used. I have considered a devia- intended. These five early editions can be tion of up to 2 millimetre as being distinguished from each other by acceptable. Facts different combinations of • the back pattern Up to date, I have been able to following traits: - almost all packs examined have identify 5 different early editions the same crackled back pattern of the Waite/Smith pack („early“ • The mechanical tinted pattern (to (some call it pebbles), only in this connection means packs be compared with the modern varying in color intensity. published in the period from 1909 printing screen) is either dotted, There exist furthermore packs up to the Second World War). In linear or a muddled mixture of the with a Roses and Lilies back this paper I’ll describe the charac- two. (Pamela-A/Cary Collection and - teristics and suggest a possible • An extra „half part of a sun probably - Pamela-C). relation between the packs. beam“ (an undulated line) is drawn immediately to the right of Of lesser importance for the In the following, the five editions the Roman numeral XIX. identification is the color density are called Pamela-A to Pamela-E. This undulated line, which has and balance since these often vary The letters were assigned in the given raise to some speculation, is within the same printrun. Besides, sequence in which I discovered already present in the illustration it has not been possible for me to the packs, and are thus not of The Sun in an article by Waite view all the listed early editions in indicating any order of in The Review, December the original, and color copies tend publication. I have chosen The 1909, written immediately before to distort the colors in a variable Sun as a common denominator, the publication of the deck. degree.

Manteia Courier 1998-99 page 22 • Cary Collection, The Beinecke Rare Book and one millimetre is cut off on the Manuscript Library, Yale University, USA (inv. # ENG38) right side of the image. At least in on the remains of a box is printed „Printed in my pack is the trimming of the Great Britain“ and a handwritten note (dated 14 of January 1937): „Church of Light, L.A “ and a cards not precise and some handwritten price „$2.-“) corners are not rounded. • Collection Simon Wintle, England Size aprox.119x70 millimetres. the owner gives the thickness of this pack as being 29-30 millimetres, which is a deviation. Thickness: 27 milimetres. Other identification points are confirmed • Collection Rhonda Hawes, USA Pamela-D is present in following collections: • Guildhall Library Collection, England No less than two copies of the Pamela-B version • Collection K.Frank Jensen, Spilkammeret are in the collection: #GB179 + #GB270. Both set • Collection HollyVoley comes with Waite’s „The Key“, New Edition with This particular pack has a label „Made in Great same info as given above (Wilding Collection). Britain“ glued directly onto the lower part on the Mountain, The Lovers, Pamela-E front of the . The pack was acquired Pamela C: from the former JamesWardle-collection. This edition has a dotted tinting Pamela-A Pamela E: and an undulated line. Size This edition has a linear mechani- This edition is unique since the 119x70 millimetres. Thickness: 27 cal tint and includes the undulated corners are square and the back is milimetres.The illustrations on line. Size 121x70 millimetre, blank. The Sun has the undulated this pack correspond with the thickness of 78 cards: 38 millime- line. The mechanical tints used 1993 Rider-reprint called „The tre. All known packs except one are dotted, but where The Lover’s Original Rider/Waite Tarot Pack“ has the yellow/brown cracked mountain in the other packs was except that this pack has the back pattern. tinted by a hand process, we can crackled back pattern (while the The pack with this combination of here see a special pattern created, reprint has a Rose/Lilies pattern in tinting type and size is known to which is the typical result of blue and carries a 1971 USGames exist packed in a box together superimposing mechanical tints copyright statement). with Waite’s Key to the Tarot in from two printing plates upon each an edition dated 1910. other, laid so that the dots do not The undulated lines in the listed fall upon but between each other. Pamela-A is present in following collections: three packs and in the 1993- Size 120x75 millimetres. • K Frank Jensen, Spilkammeret reprint all have an extra tiny side Thickness: 25 milimetres. includes half part of a black slipcase • United States Playing Card Company, USA line, which no other registered this pack is an unusual variation since it has a packs have. It sems evident that Pamela-E is present in following collection: • Cary Collection, The Beinecke Rare Book and lilies and rose back design in red/brown colors. the reprint is made from a Pamela- • Collection Holly Voley, USA Manuscript Library, Yale University, USA packed in a dark red, two piece box with a C type pack. (inv. # ENG37). The cataloger dated the pack 1910 edition of Waite’s „Key“ included. The Compared to Pamela-A, does this c.1920. name of the publisher „William Rider & Son Limited - 1910“ is pasted over with a label pack also appear to be inferior in Speculations „W.M.Postel“. artistic execution. • Collection Simon Wintle, England These are the facts known so far. in a dark green slipcase Pamela-C is present in following collections: It seems sure to assume that the • Collection Laurie Amato, USA Pamela-A type is the first (1909) Pamela-B The thickness given is 30 millimetres. The pack This edition has a dotted tint but was bought from Gene Hockman, who in his Rider edition of the Waite-Smith Encyclopedia of American Playing Cards, vol. lacks the ondulated line. III, states that „it is believed that an edition of pack. Whether the 1910 edition is Size 119x70 millimetre, thickness the Waite pack was published in New York among the packs listed here is, simultaneously with the English edition“. I have of 79 cards: 26,5 millimetre. not found any evidence of this. however, a little doubtful. If we Apart from the differences on The • Collection Holly Voley, USA consider, that the 1993 reprint is this pack has an extra blank card Sun, there are obvious differences • Victoria and Albert Museum. England based on „an original edition“, i.e. on all cards. While The Sun is The Sun card is illustrated in Cavendish’s The the 1909 or 1910 pack, Pamela-C Tarot where the extra line extruding from the artistically well executed, most crumbled line is clearly visible. is the only choice. The 1910 pack other cards in this edition appear is stated to be „on better cardboard“ to be of inferior quality to Pamela- Pamela D: (which I assume is not the heavy A. This edition looks like a photo- type used for the 1909-edition). graphical, bad quality reprint of Besides, the 1993 reprint does Pamela-B is present in following collections: Pamela-A. The reproduction have the same tiny line protuding • K Frank Jensen, Spilkammeret • Collection Sheila Wilding, USA process has added another print upwards from the lower part of this pack is in a two part red cardboard box screen to the original tinting, thus the undulated Sun-line of Pamela- packed with a hardbound copy of „Key to the Tarot“ (212 pages), New Edition, Rider & Co. making the images look very C. I have, unfortunately, not been Paternostre House,E.C.4. Printed in Great Britain blurred (details are there, but able to view any of the original by Fischer, Knight & Co. Ltd., Gainsborough Press, St. Albans. unsharp) and blocked up. About packs of Pamela-C, so I couldn’t

Manteia Courier 1998-99 page 23 judge the cardboard quality. the line appears to be a design traces of a publisher to be found. Another question is, why does the flaw and so far I have not found It is difficult to estimate a date for, reprint have a Roses and Lilies any acceptable answer for its since photographic reproduction back pattern and not the cracked presence. Since all modern edi- techniques were available also pattern, as the other copies of tions of the Waite/Smith Tarot, early in the period. The quality is Pamela-C? Was, perhaps, the according to Kaplan’s „The inferior to any of the other packs 1910-set boxed with „The Key...“ Encyclopedia of Tarot“, are based listed. Both listed packs appear to printed with a Roses and Lilies upon an early copy which come from England. pattern, while sold on its own it belonged to Waite’s family, the had the crackled back? The tiny line was carried over in edition Pamela-E is quite an unusual but line indicates, that the illustrations after edition, nobody was caring also unknown edition and most on both versions come from the or daring to remove it. likely another unauthorised one same printing stones. Was it vice- (even though much superior to versa with the 1909 edition? The In 1920 a „New Edition“ of „The Pamela-D). The cataloger’s date riddle of the Roses and Lilies back Key“ was published. In my own of 1920 seems to be appropriate pattern could, perhaps, be solved library, I have a copy of „The considering the tinting method by packs in the collections of New Edition“ which has printed considered. Stuart R. Kaplan and Robert A. on it the date of 1920. This copy Gilbert, which I, however, could lists the printers name as: Made Literature: not get access to. I was, second- and published in GB by Chance • Bamber Gascoigne: How To Identify Prints. hand, informed that Stuart R. Thames & Hudson, England 1988 and Bland Ltd. Glouchester. R.A. • R.A. Gilbert: A.E. Waite. A Bibliography Kaplan owns the pack from which Gilbert, however, does in his The Aquarian Press, Wellingborough. 1983 the 1993-reprint was made, and Waite bibliography note that The • Gene Hochman: Encyclopedia of American Playing Cards, Vol. III. that this proper pack has the lilies New Edition with the date of 1920 • K. Frank Jensen, article in Manteia no. 11, and roses back pattern, so this was printed by Buttler & Tanner, (preliminary theories, with are partly corrected combination of front and back is Frome and London. in the present article) • Stuart R. Kaplan: Encyclopedia of Tarot, Vol. not a later construction. III, USA 1990 In Holly Voley’s collection is an • Theo de Laurence: The Illustrated Key to the Pamela-B is the only edition which Tarot (pirated edition of Waite’s text), USA incomplete deck (the majors are 1919 has not the undulated line. The missing, so I have not been able to •A.E.Waite: The Key to the Tarot...., first edition artwork in general appears to be identify the type). This pack has 1910 + New Edition 1920 • A.E.Waite: The Illustrated Key to the Tarot, inferior - looks more like a copy „The Key“, New edition, with a first edition 1911 + later editions after Pamela-A or Pamela C. The stated date of 1931. The printers •A.E.Waite: Article in The Occult Review, Vol. reason for this could be, that new are Fisher, Knight and Co. Ltd. 10, no. 12, December 1909, pg. 307-17, written immediately before the publication of the deck. printing stones or plates were Gainborough Press. St. Albans, A few cards are reproduced, including The Sun created, and the transcriber who the same who printed all the (Pamela-A-type) which, however, in the article did the job, was not so careful. It is misnumbered XVIII (!) copies of The Key, that accompany • Richard Cavendish: The Tarot. London 1975. could also be because a copy of the listed Pamela -B decks. It may Pamela-A or C was used as the therefore be assumed, that these model instead of the original are all of a later date. Acknowledgements: artwork, which, perhaps, had been Information for this paper was received with thanks from Laurie Amato, USA, John Berry, split up for sale (it has never been Pamela-D is probably an England, Cary Collection, The Beinecke Rare unearthed again). Or the person unauthorised photographic (and Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, USA. Ronald Decker, USA, Sir Michael who did the copying job conside- definitely cheaply made) Dummett, England, Rhonda Hawes, USA, red the undulated line a mistake reproduction of one of the original Melinda Boyd Parsons, USA, Holly Voley, and just removed it. Admittedly, packs, and as such there are no USA, Sheila Wilding,USA, Simon Wintle, England.

Manteia Courier 1998-99 page 24 The collection of Spilkammeret. Additions during 1989-99

SS-tan- NNnon CC-arto- dard stan- TTkarock VV-aria- TTtarot mancy- TTlotal playing dard ***) **) *) cards p.c. SSstatus 5575427 9499364 3333053 1101920 2292889 77858 331011 jan.1989 aaddded 225235 333353 665625 112142 334334 1133 11282 Manteia Courier 1989 1998-99 is sent free to 11011990 4411 991991 889809 110130 773703 1100 33414 all former subscribers 11118991 880550580 8888 886556556 5 22515 who have returned the 11318992-93 888558598 999949 442552562 6 22727 card enclosed with 11410994 110140 114164 446416 114114124 2 8877 Manteia # 16 and to 11510995 110160 1166 446446 443223213 1 11000 anyone else who in 11611996 110110150 555525 229119169 6 9933 other ways have 11712997 225553443423 220110120 2 6644 expressed their interest. 11915998-99 554114114 881871 7731133 11020 Manteia Courier TTlotal 67637 115255 95965 11070 55383 88303 443413 1998-99 is also sent to *) include 84 tools for divination, which explains the difference of the figures in the two tables. all contributors to APA- **) games, children’s decks, implements for games, posters etc. Tarot, active by the end ***) this category consists of French suited tarot decks plus some of 1999. Italian suited standard tarot decks Manteia Courier 1998-99 is furthermore TTtarot TTkarok CCyartomancy Books i Spilkammerets sent to a number of SSaS)candinavia 44)417 (4) 111191 1199 library, ultimo 1999 interested parts at the GGnG)reat Britain 5)55-8 (3) --)5)55 (1) Tarot: 721 discretion of the editor. Playing cards- and history: 423 FFeF)rance 9)98 (5) 44)9 (7) 8)81 (2) Card Games: 42 Cartomanci: 125 Editor and publisher: IIyI)taly 1)11445 (7) 5545)4 3)35 (2) Magic: 116 Golden Dawn : 76 AAaA9ustria 993223263 6 K. Frank Jensen Crowley: 61 Spilkammeret BBmB)elgium 6)6662 (1) 6655 Kabbalah: 38 KKTalismans, color etc.: 101 Sankt Hansgade 20 GGyG)ermany 44)444 (2) 1141)4 66)7 (2) Divination in general: 101 DK 4000 Roskilde Occulta in general: 85 SSnS)pain 33)342 (3) 44)2)2 (1) Astrology: 90 Denmark Numerology: 28 SSdS)witzerland 3)3341 (3) 4401100 I-Ching, Chinese lore: 135 Geomancy: 48 Phone (45) 46 35 18 08 HHdH6olland 2262-6 --21122 Earth’s mysteries, feng-sui: 134 Fax (45) 46 35 20 09 Northern tradition, runes: 135 RRaR6ussia 66----- Celtic & Arthurian lore: 64 e-mail: [email protected] OOnther Eastern Psychology, Jung: 135 1)11-7 (3) --)7)7 (1) European Time and time measuring: 43 Mythology, religion: 171 OOnO6ther European 6644481188 Folklore: 133 Copyright for all material: Various therapies: 58 UUAU)SA 22)2-86 (40) --)1)150 (4) Games and toys: 215 © K.Frank Jensen except Esoteric fiction: 84 interview by Asta Erte MMoM1exico 1111-1 --88 Varia: 117 which is © Asta Erte. JJnJ)apan 5)5525 (6) 2 Frontcover based on photo by Bernhard Grünig. O-Other Non- The figures in brackets are 3)30 (1) 1)113(1) 2233 European assessions in the period 1998-99 (the figures are included in the TTlotal 99565 11070 44999 higher figures)

Manteia Courier 1998-99 page 25 Editions Ouroboros Books on Tarot- & Cartomancy

The Prophetic Cards.- Vol. I-II-III Rare and limited editions: A Catalog of cards for Fortune-Telling Mail Artist's Lenormand Cards: A set of Lenormand fortune The three volumes of the catalog edited by K.Frank Jensen telling cards created in 1996 by 38 mail artists from 14 countries. illustrates respectively 162, 110 and 184 cartomancy decks from 78 laminated cards in pouch, a list of artists + instructions are the collection of SPILKAMMERET . enclosed. Only 16 of the 22 sets of this special edition is offered (Tarot decks are not included in these catalogs) for sale. Leaflet available. Text in Danish and English.225+140+230 pages. Price dkk 450.- /US$65.- (sample card and color flyer available A4-size, Limited edition. upon request). Roskilde 1985-1990-. ISBN 87-87976-05-6 Special price for all three volumes: dkk 500.-/US$70.- Mail Artists’ Tarot Deck 1998: 33 artists from all over the world created this unique tarot deck. Each of the 22 major arcana K. Frank Jensen: cards are interpreted by 3 different artists and Mail Artists Tarot A Bibliography of Books in Spilkammeret 1998 is thus three entirely different decks in one. Books on playing cards, tarot, cartomancy, Collectors’ Limited Edition of 25 numbered and signed packs, of I-Ching, runes, magic etc. About 3000 annotated entries. which only 20 are offered for sale. 66 colorful cards, 130x170 258 pages. In English. Included is also a 38 pages milimetres. Booklet illustrating all cards in color. Heavy card- suppplement of accessions during 1994-99. board box. Sample card and color flyer available upon request. Roskilde 1993,1998. ISBN 87-87976-14-5. Price inclusive postage and registration: dkk1200.-/US$170.- Price dkk 250.-/US$35.- Mail Artist's Tarot 1993-96: The collected documentation of a Manteia mail artist's tarot project which ran for 4 years. Ca. 75 pages, A4 Even though Manteia has stopped publication, all back issues size, ca. 250 illustrations of unique tarot cards, partly in color. are still available. Within a total of 700 pages are 440 card Only 10 copies of this documentation are offered for sale in this decks and 400 books reviewed, and several articles are making hardbound edition. Price dkk 300.-/US$40.- this compilation an extraordinary documentation of the period. A comprehensive list of contents is included. Mulleposten for APA-Tarot, issue no. 1-62 (1987-99): ISSN 0904-9339. Edited by K. Frank Jensen Mulleposten is the name of K. Frank Jensen's zine written for the Price for all 16 issues, postage incl.: DKK 800.- American “APA-Tarot”, a monthly/bimonthly collection of 20-30 Hardbound in five steel binders. DKK1000.- /US$140.- contributions mainly on the theme of tarot. Even if this compila- (recommended!). Single issues are also available - ask! tion is only the work of one of the contributors, it is readable and has a lot of tarot related illustrations. More than 1000 (!) US- Catalog of Mantic Tools letter size pages. Later issues have color illutrations. This is a loose leaf catalog (limited edition of 16 copies only) Price dkk 500.-/US$70.- (only 6 sets are available). published with the purpose of listing and describing all 20th century tarot- and cartomancy decks which are not included in either • Stuart R. Kaplan's „The Encyclopedia of Tarot“, vol I-III , All articles can be ordered from : • „The Prophetic Cards“, vol. I-III (see book list) • or in Manteia # 1-16 (se above). Spilkammeret Sankt Hansgade 20 I have packed the few remaining copies with complete sets of DK 4000 Roskilde Denmark Manteia. This is now the only way to obtain the catalog, which Phone: (+45) 46 35 18 08 have been offered to former subscribers of Manteia for the Fax (+45) 46 35 20 09 last three years. Only 3 sets are available now and the catalog e-mail: [email protected] will not be reprinted. Postage will be added to the prices unless otherwise is stated. Each deck is illustrated on one page with about four cards, Please note, that postal rates in Denmark are high. details about publisher, artist etc. are given and there is a short Customers unknown to us will receive a proforma invoice. commentary as well as a star-marking, regarding originality, Method of payment depends on country of delieverance. Special allowance for dealers and customers, who buy more than artistic quality, printing, packing and price. The initial mailing will one copy of the same item. Ask! include ring binder and about 160 pages of deck descriptions. Other books, cataloges and limited editions are available. Further mailings of each ca. 30 loose pages each will follow, just Ask for catalog as well as a list of contents.

Manteia 1-16 + Manteia Courier + list of contents bound in 5 hard cover volumes + Mantic Tool catalog + mailing of catalog supplements for the next couple of years. costs dkr. 1200.-/ US$170.- postage included.

Manteia Courier 1998-99 page 26 Wanted ! Tarot- & Cartomancy decks/ books wanted for cash or for exchange

I have always more that 100 different rare or hard-to-find USA: tarot- and cartomancy decks to offer in exchange. • Dreadstone Tarot, USA 1990 • Albert Dennis Tessler: Taroscope. Los Angeles 1942 • Maprem & Gene Ira Katz: Trinity Tarot, USA 1980 (Kaplan-III-515) I am looking for following decks and books, but any unusual • Tarot Guild of Minneapolis (Nell M.Ubbelodhe): packs are of interest: Photographic Tarot, USA 1983, (KAPLAN-III-502) • Ellery Littleton/Ken Faris: Tarograms 1985 (KAPLAN-III-501) SPAIN: • Gail Shea Everidge: The Voice of the Subconscious • Mercedes Fraga, Ester Plana....: Tarot of Personality (workbook) +Shea Anton Pensa: Estudio Magenta, Spain 1984 ( Kaplan-III-326) The Protective Tarot (deck), USA 1987. (Kaplan-III-441) • Tarot Superfacie / S.A.Porteta 1987. • Deborah Noble: Fourth Way Tarot, I.D.H.H.B, USA 1980 • Tarot Futurologia 2000, 1982 (KAPLAN-III-230) • Tarot del Universo, Dovia Albinana 1988 (+ book), Canary Islands • Crowley: Book of Thoth, Simpsons of Dallas, Texas. ca 1960. (KAPLAN-III-156) ITALY: • Gaetano D. Marabello: Bone Black’s Cards. USA 1978. • Luciano Proverbio Tarot, Viassone 1975, (KAPLAN-III-445) (KAPLAN-III-107) • L’Isola Trovata: Donne di Maggio Tarocchi. Lim.ed. 1500 • J. Cooper: Cooper Tarot, Eye Magazine, USA 1969. Bianca Maria Rizzoli/Dal Negro 1982. (KAPLAN-III-550). (KAPLAN-I-185) • Tarot Guido Giordano. (KAPLAN-III-247) Lim.ed100. • Rita Ollgaard Tarot. USA. (KAPLAN-I-209) + Tarocchi de Mario Gambedotti + Tarrocchi di Clizia • Topa: The 22 Keys of the Tarot. USA ca 1980? Three decks from Pheljna Edizione a’Arte e Suggestione, Turin. • R.A.Straughn: The Oracle of Thoth (book). USA 1970-80? • Franco Bellenghi (Haram): Il Segreto dei Tarocchi • Susan Shaffner Baylies: Susan’s Tarot, USA ca. 1980 (with book), Pre-Art, Milan 1979. (KAPLAN-III-278) • Fergus Hall: The Devil’s Tarot , +The Exorcist’s Tarot • Maria Teresa Monti: Tarocchi della Luna Nuova. Fergus’s Hall's deck in any/both of these boxes wanted. (book/text by. G.Berti) Bologna 1985. (KAPLAN-III-396) USGames, USA ca. 1975. • Donato Piantanida: Magia dei Tarocchi • Dreamspel - The Journey of Timeship Earth 2013 (book) Edizioni Mediterranee, Roma 1978. (KAPLAN-III-426) J. Argüelles. USA ca. 1990 (Boardgame). • I Nuovi Taroccini di Franco Balan, Aosta 1983. (KAPLAN-III-91) • RoHun. Patricia Hayes, Georgía, USA.(Cartomancy deck/chakras). • Gli Arcani Maggiori del Tarocchi di Donatello Bassanesi • The Mystical Messages Tarot, Marianne Hoffman, USA 1990's?: • Claudio Alari: Elettra d’Argo (in book). Editrice Atanor, Roma 1973. (KAPLAN III,166) Mexico, South Americas • Ida Amadei: 23 Arcani Maggiore, Metalmecanica Plast, Italy ca. 1986 • Tarot de Sylvia Colombes, (b&w) Argentina 1985 • Tania Gori: Italtel Tarot. Firenze 1989 • Anon: Egyptian Spanish Tarot. Mexico ca. 1970. (Kaplan-III-191) • O Tarot da Biblio a Gustave Doré. Thot Editora, Brazil 1990 FRANCE • Tarot. Thot Livraria SDS Conic. Brazilia, Brazil • Pierrick Pinot: Tarot d’Argolance. Martigne, France 1983. • Hermetics Liberator Book Tarot, Costa Rica 1985. (KAPLAN-III-74) Lim. ed. 90. (KAPLAN-III-282) • Unknown artist: Mandala Tarot,France 1982, (KAPLAN-III-334) • Tarot Salomonico. El Nuove Japon. Mexico 1985 • Tarot du Non-etre-supreme. Editions Baudoine, Paris 1985. • Baraja Magica Astrotarot. Mexico 1985 (KAPLAN-III-401) • Tonalamate. Baraja Playing Cards. Mexico 1985 • Oswald Wirth: 1926-edition (folder with cards+book) Paris 1926. (KAPLAN-III-543) Other Non-European countries • Le Tarot Chiffre. Catherine Jan, France ? • Greg Yermakov: Tarot Midnight, ca. 1988 • Cartes Parlantes. Danielle Varne. France ca. 1990(?) Yamakufo Sogyo Co. Ltd. Tokyo, Japan. Cartomancy-deck. • Toko’s Tarot. Triumph International, Japan 1975. (KAPLAN-III-513) • Gli Arcani di Casanova. Carla Tolemeo. Ed. Rafaele Bandine. • George Bennet Starter Tarot (with texts in Japanese). AGMüller for Japan ca. 1983. (KAPLAN-III-490) Other European Countries: • Nariyuki Sawaki: Sawaki’s Tarot (book edited by Masao Ono). • Artists Tarot. Different artists, England ca 1984. (KAPLAN-III-77) Mainichi Simbun-Sha, Japan 1978. • Christoph Glass: Glass Tarot no. I. ca. 1975. (KAPLAN-I-194) French suited tarot • Waltraud Kremser: Anti-Nuclear Wendländisches Tarot, • Green Spade Tarok, August Petryl & Son. Chicago 1922. Germany 1980. (KAPLAN-III-69) (Hochman-III-TA4) • Ernst Kurtzahn: Daityanus Tarot. • Tarot Circus. Editions Glénat/Grimaud. France Talis Verlag Germany 1920. (KAPLAN-III-161) • Tarot Astronaut, Dussere, France • Theofana Abby: Nitramus Tarot. Edice Auroboros. • Tarot Marine. Service Audiovisuel de Marine. Paris 1986. ca 1985. (KAPLAN-III-398) • Tarot Willeb. Paris ca. 1920. (KAPLAN-I-320) • Pierre Lasenic: Rota Tarot, Graphic Studio. 1938 or later fascimille. • Tarot Jean-Marie Simon ca 1960. (KAPLAN-II-491) Czechoslovakia (KAPLAN-III-461) •Tarot du Pacifique/design by Evel. Editions de Lezard, • Dimitri Papavasiliu: Tarot. Athen, Greece 1969 . (KAPLAN-III-417) Printed in Italy for Tahiti • Tarot pro zamillované, Chech republic, ca 1995 • Esteban Lopez: Rota und Liebe Herbstein, Germany 1985 or other editions (book) K. Frank Jensen • Esteban Lopez/Helmut Woudenberg: Tarok, book. Spilkammeret 1972 Sct. Hansgade 20 DK-4000 ROSKILDE - DENMARK e-mail: [email protected]

Manteia Courier 1998-99 page 27 „Selfportrait with Pam and Arthur“

Editions Ouroboros Manteia Courier 1998-99 © K. Frank Jensen Spilkammeret • Sankt Hansgade 20 • DK 4000 Roskilde, Denmark Phone: (+45) 46 35 18 08 • Fax (+45) 46 35 20 09 • e-mail: [email protected]