I think I may have found the book Westcott copied from: https://www.abebooks.fr/edition-originale/MANI%C3%88RE-R%C3%89CR%C3%89ER-JEU-CARTES-NOMM%C3%89ES-TAROTS/22408607003/bd although I am not 1035 Euros curious to see if I am right. But if anyone gets it, or has it, I'd certainly like a pdf of the ...

On tax stamps, you are right. Looking in Kaplan vol. 2 I see that France didn't put stamps on cards until 1890, according to Kaplan. They were taxed, but not stamped, by the methods you indicate. Sorry to have introduced this confusion. All this time I've been thinking those little red ovals on Fren...

Good question. Here is the same card in Depaulis's pack, pictured in Wicked Pack . https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jJ4bsiNP8To/WtVA5wc_73I/AAAAAAAALV0/OiFt0BIFsOMCEjBTKQYbgJeJexN_UJyswCLcBGAs/s1600/WickedPackCh6LeNorm%25267EtteillaTradition-19c.jpg It seems the same, except that Depaulis's pack was sold ...

thanks for the clarification. I have a question about the tax stamp that appears on most of the cards that were cut up for this tableau. I know, I think from Wicked Pack, that taxes on card were abolished by the revolutionary government. So does the presence of the stamp mean for sure that the cards...

Great find, Steve! The BnF's title for the page is "[Livre de Thot // ou // Collection précieuse des tableaux de la Doctrine de Mercure"; so I was wondering about the //. Did they mean possibly "II", i.e. the second version. But no, the cards are "Etteilla I" through and through. And the layout is b...

Thanks. For the German-impaired, I would add that by "Collections" Steve means, I think, to click on the large"Sammlung" (German for "collection") at the top left after the link comes up, in order to have the keywords work in the "Suchbegriff Eingeben" space. I also noticed that there is also a Bern...

So he does mention a few more decks! Tourcaty is Tarot de Marseille. Laurent is Jean-Pierre Laurent, described with sample cards at http://secretsdutarot.blogspot.com/2013/04/les-tarots-de-besancon.html. For the quotes in your last post, Steve, what are the page numbers? Also, it would seem that you...

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yydt95JqP7M/WqIpKR5JYnI/AAAAAAAALHU/xamp-KrQ6f0VDORswvPkBIJeorfyHBZwQCLcBGAs/s1200/ChartresNorthTranseptRightPortal-page-001a.jpg (For the entire portal, see https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jT7y9zV9yyU/WqPK-AJPaRI/AAAAAAAALI0/RvEwtqGwH2chiz8XMqHXmOm8CRiJ22iSQCLcBGAs/s1600/Char...

Thanks for straightening me out on the identification of the two decks with numbers. Yes, they are quite different. But they do correspond to the two types of variations on the Tarot de Marseille which Etteilla uses as evidence that the ignorant card makers have changed everything from what it was a...

SteveM wrote, Not sure what you mean by "why are these same number on different cards?" Which cards have the same numbers? I meant decks http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10537344z and http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10511145z They seem to be from the same molds and stencils, but with diff...