1JJ Swiss Tarot

Details of the 1JJ Swiss Tarot

Solandia's Summary: The 1JJ Swiss Tarot is an older style of tarot deck, a Marseilles variant. The cards are reprints of early woodcut designs, printed in black and coloured with blocks of red, blue, green and yellow. Titles are in French.

Creator(s): Stuart Kaplan

Type: Tarot Deck   Number of Cards: 78    Major Arcana: 22    Minor Arcana: 56

Card Size: 2.37 x 4.37 inches = 6.03cm x 11.11cm

Publisher: Published by US Games 1970

Deck Tradition: Marseilles

Minor Arcana Style: Marseilles-Style Pips

Suits: Coupes, Deniers, Epees, Batons

Court Cards: Roi, Reine, Chevalier, Valet
The Fool is 0   Strength is 11   Justice is 8

Deck Themes: Marseilles

Other Decks by Creator(s): Tarot Classic by Stuart Kaplan.

Card Back: Reversible

Back Design: Ruddy-coloured check pattern.

Companion Material: The separate companion book written by Stuart R. Kaplan has been published a few times. First in 1970 as Tarot cards for Fun and Fortune Telling by US Games. Then it was first published in the UK by the Aquarian Press as Tarot Cards for Fun and Fortune Telling in 1978. The next edition was published in 1995 by Diamond Books and is called Fortune Telling with Tarot Cards.

Languages: English

Excerpt of the 1JJ Swiss Tarot review by Steve Gustafson: This was my first Tarot deck. It was not my last. Early on, I became somewhat uncomfortable with it, because of things I was reading. I bought it at a Spencer Gifts or some such purveyor of enlightenment. This would have been in 1975 or so. I would have been around fifteen. First, most of the books assumed that you owned a Rider-Waite-Smith deck. I found it less than adequate b... read more.

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