He is indeed holding a thin 'baton', as do a number of other court cards.

The main implement, the Coin, is however represented... so not sure why you're suggesting 'not a Denier'.

That the archer allegorically illustrates the pangs of love 'as if' an arrow had veritably pierced one's heart does not mean death, but the passion of love transfixed to even death. What I find interesting with the Dick Sheet image is that here it is clear that it is what appears as the woman who is...

Just to be clear with regards to my personal take on this: That most of tarot's imagery also appears as petroglyphs does not mean that tarot is a derivative of those petroglyphs. Rather, they both draw from a common body of visual allegory and symbolic representation. How petroglyphs may have influe...

I think the suggestion is pretty clear that I am presenting the bateleur as 'old adam'... sorry you find it so unclear, from emails I have recieved others have understood it perfectly well.... Thanks Steve - I'm probably just trying to do too much of late and must be reading less clearly than I oug...

Chevalier does indeed mean "horseman", but that term in itself means more than just any guy who rides a horse - although if a horseman approaches you on the road, how are you to know if he is a horse-thief or a knight? I agree, Ross... and indeed could also be a farmer or a compagnon on h...

In addition to the 'knight' aspect of 'Cavalier', there is its far more common meaning as 'horse-rider'. Also, apart from the Sword Cavalier in various early decks, the Cavalier does not bear armour, and so may perhaps best be understood as 'horse-rider' of the suit in question, perhaps on an errand...

As we discuss with dear JMD at ATF earlier,that prove that IIII is not IV ?? I'm not sure what we may have discussed, or the context, in which IIII is not IV, except in a more general sense that mentioned that in the additive form, 'IV' can also be read as 'one-&-five' (ie, six). In general, ho...

The number of women represented on the trumps in part varies with the deck used.

On the letters U and V, perhaps I should highlight a very old 2003 thread on AT , in which ihcoyc writes: The older general printing rule for lower ca∫e was that 'v' was always v∫ed at the beginning of a word; 'u' everywhere el∫e. In vpper ca∫e, 'V' was the only letter that exi∫ted. A ∫imilar rule g...

The full deck does not, inevitably, have that magic touch that the hand-finished deck has. Rather, it is printed on one of those massive printers dating from heavy industrial times in Poland, on the same machine, I seem to recall being told, as LS has many of its decks printed. Still, the attention ...