fortune-telling cards
Published by Vigor S.R.L., Tejedor 244-256, Bs Aires in the 1950s (formerly by Igor Domicelj), and then successive editions into the 1960s. 40 cards + instruction leaflet in box. The Patent Office Registration documents, dated 22nd June 1955, show the original designs at the time of the take-over, with the new company name overwritten. However, the designs are largely taken from nineteenth century Austrian "Rural Scenes" Tarock cards. |
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Above: the designs on the top halves of the Cartas Gitanas are based on nineteenth century Austrian "Rural Scenes" Tarock cards (shown right). Scenes include musicians, horsemen, couples, courtships as well as rural or exotic scenes, all reproduced in this Argentinean descendent! The court and 'consultant' cards are also derived from the Austrian prototypes. Below: instruction leaflet, inner wrapper and box showing various symbols alluding to luck, fate and hidden wisdom disclosed through cartomancy. The leaflet informs that these cards had been a jealously guarded secret amongst fortune-tellers for centuries, handed down from mother to daughter, but are now being made available to the public. Instructions are given in the leaflet for reading the cards, as well as how to select winning lottery numbers, roulette stakes or horse races. |
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See also: Franz Adametz • Argentinean Tarocco • Book of Fate • Bourgeois Tarot • Cartas Blancas • Cartomancy & Divination Cards • Edyta Gdek Tarot • 17th Century Fortune-Telling Cards • 72 Names Cards • Geistliche Karten, 1718 • German Fortune Telling cards, c.1818 • Grapho-Deck • Holmblad Tarock • Jason Ennis Tarot • Johann Herrl Tarock, 1815 • Minchiate • Mlle Lenormand Cartomancy • Naipes Tu Destino • Piatnik Tarock Cards, 1910 • Picture Book of Ana Cortez • Picture Show Zodiac Fortune Telling Cards • Rameses Fortune-telling cards • Ramses II Tarot • Self-Nurturing Solitaire • Tarocco Bolognese • Tarocco Piemontesi • Tarock Cards • Tarot Egipcios Kier • Verkehrte-Welt-Tarock • Welsh Tarot • Tarot



