US $15.51
www.golden-letter.com

Store Categories

Chrome Emblems [148]

Electrical Equipment & Suppl [20]

Fortune Telling Cards [8]

Health & Beauty [173]

Barbie [11]

Playing Cards [3254]

Hungaricum [61]

Rubik'Shop [27]

Food & Beverages [26]

Jigsaws Puzzles [94]

3D Puzzle Construction Set [71]

Wooden Puzzle [66]

Wooden Name [889]

Halas Lace - Halasi Csipke [98]

Matyo hand embroidered [170]

Girls' Names [0]

Leather Crafts [33]

LEGO [598]

Seeds [3511]

Tarot de Marcelino - tarot decks

Playing Cards
Playing Cards -> Tarot decks

Price: US $15.51

ProductID: alt0877

Shipping and handling:   US $4.99
Each additional item:    US $0.00

Quantity:              0  available  /  21  sold


About this item
  • The Tarot de Marcelino is a Marseilles-inspired deck in a very quirky and distinct style, from the 'Not-So-Master of
  • Cutesy Cards' (otherwise known as Lynyrd Narciso). It's a full 78-card deck, but does have pips rather than illustrated
  • minor arcana. It's printed in burgundy ink on unbleached paper, and has been published in a limited edition of 70 decks.


Specifications
Name Tarot de Marcelino
Creators Lynyrd-Jym Narciso
Publisher Self Published 2009
Deck Type Tarot Deck
Cards 79
Major Arcana 23
Minor Arcana 56
Deck Tradition Marseilles
Minor Arcana Style Marseilles-Style Pips
Card Size 3.00 x 4.00 in. = 7.62cm x 10.16cm
Card Language Spanish
Card Back Reversible
Back Design Flowered checks
Companion Material Small leaflet and a handmade box.


Reviews

El Tarot de Marcelino is a wonderfully quirky little deck which combines an amusing back story with cards based on the European traditional rather than the Rider-Waite. The story behind the cards begins thus:

“This remarkable series of images was discovered amongst other personal possessions of one Alestra Crawling, Marchioness of Whaite (one of them a very telling diary filled with the scandals and intrigues of the members of the Gilded Dawn Club). They were presumably a copy of an older set of woodcuts done by a master following the Marseilles tradition.”

I won’t spoil the rest of the booklet for you, other than to quote Lynyrd’s apt description of the style of the cards:

“Since during those times, engravers did not generally sign their work, experts have found it convenient to refer to the creators of these images as the Not-So-Master of Cutesy Cards. His style is characterised by a general pudginess of the faces of the figures, a charming imbalance in eye sizes, and four-fingered hands.”

The 79 cards of the deck has figures as described, which gives them a somewhat quizzical expression and a link to the world of The Simpsons. As is typical for Marseilles-style decks, the numbered suit cards aren’t scenic, but these are undecorated even by Marseilles standards.: they simply show the suit elements (eight swords, three cups, etc) in a geometric arrangement and without embellishment. There is also a very modern and increasingly popular additional card in the deck – the 'arbilla de la felicidad', or The Happy Squirrel.

The deck and its booklet have a very environmentally friendly appearance, as they’ve been printed on recycled, unbleached and uncoated paper. The outer box is similar, and has tiny leaves and ferns printed on it, and ties closed with a burgundy ribbon. (Which also matches the cards – they were printed in burgundy ink.)

Along with the 79 tarot cards, the set has two extra cards: one a title card in English, and the other with some text in Filipino, including the number of the set and Lynyrd’s signature. There’s also the unmissable booklet titled ‘el Tarot de Marcelino’, which is printed in English, though the titles printed on the trumps, courts and aces are in Spanish.

The set is a work of art, self-published by Lynyrd himself and available directly from him on eBay for US$88.00. It may not be an everyday reading deck, but it’s wonderful to see more Marseilles-inspired decks that add some humour and a touch of modernity to a serious traditional deck.


Combine shipping is possible.



Related products
BELVEDERE PLAYING C
MONET PLAYING CARDS
ALI PLAYING CARDS,
ASTRONOMICAL PLAYIN
AMWEICAN DREAM CARS
Last purchases
2024.03.28. 17:29:38Deodorant Roll On For Women Motion Sense Fresh Shower Clean 48h
2024.03.28. 17:19:32Freightliner logo
2024.03.28. 17:09:07Original Cube 4x4x4 directly from its inventor, from the Hungari
2024.03.28. 16:58:39Sacred Mandala Lenormand Oracle
2024.03.28. 16:48:29Infinite Tarot
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us:email
Cart & info:
New
100 seeds MINER'
200 seeds DICHON
25 Seeds ICE PLA
50 seeds Carnati
200 Seeds Tumbli
Last Searches
Keepsake gifts
New birthday cake pic
Standard lego bricks
Wooden name plaques for nursery
Unusual baby girl names
Renata name day
Vw karmann ghia razor edge
Puzzle games toys
Custom neon signs
Carros cadillac
Personalised room signs
3d laser wood engraving machine
Trans am 79
Faerie enchantments oracle
Campaign yard signs