My Second 16th Century Reproduction

[Ella]

Hi tarot peeps,
My first tarot deck, The New Rosenwald Tarot, is now on sale at the Game Crafter. But right now, I'd like to tell you about my next project. I began creating because as a collector I wanted examples of 16th century decks, which seem to be largely missing from the decks available now. So I created the New Rosenwald Tarot to fill that gap, giving it a modern flavour to avoid treading on the toes of two wonderful facsimile decks already out there but difficult to find. But it's not the only 16th century deck known to us but unobtainable. My new project combines the work of Catelin Geofroy and Virgil Solis. In 1557, a cardmaker in Lyons by the name of Catelin Geofroy created a tarot deck, the oldest using the Marseilles order but quite different in artwork. Geofroy copied the earlier 1544 playing card deck of a Nuremberg artist, Virgil Solis, for his minor arcana. Geofroy's surviving deck is fragmentary, only 38 cards, about half the majors and the rest minors. The Solis playing cards survive in full. In addition, Solis was a prolific artist of many subjects, and much of his work survives. My new deck will be in the style of my previous New Rosenwald deck, but using the surviving Catelin Geofroy cards and filling in the gaps with the art of Virgil Solis. What do you think? Is this a project that tarot peeps might like to see?

[Merrick]

I’d certainly be interested!

[Maskelyne]

That looks like an excellent candidate for reconstruction. I'd buy one.