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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