Instruction leaflet from “Buena Suerte” Cartomancy cards published by Difusora S.A., Argentina, c.1975
Above: leaflet from “Buena Suerte” Cartomancy cards published by Difusora S.A., Argentina, c.1975. The text states that there are more than 40 ways of using the cards in cartomancy and that the meanings of some of the cards varies.
See also: Argentinean Tarocco • Book of Fate • Cartas Blancas • Cartas Gitanas • Cartomancy & Divination Cards • Edyta Gdek Tarot • 17th Century Fortune-Telling Cards • 72 Names Cards • Geistliche Karten, 1718 • German Fortune Telling cards, c.1818 • Jason Ennis Tarot • Minchiate • Mlle Lenormand Cartomancy • Mail Artist's Lenormand Deck • Naipes Tu Destino • Picture Book of Ana Cortez • Picture Show Zodiac Fortune Telling Cards • Rameses Fortune-telling cards • Ramses II Tarot • Self-Guided Tarot • Self-Nurturing Solitaire • Tarocco Bolognese • Tarocco Piemontesi • Taroquis Obelisco • Tarot Egipcios Kier • Welsh Tarot • Tarot
By Simon Wintle
Member since February 01, 1996
View ArticlesCurator and editor of the World of Playing Cards since 1996. He is a former committee member of the IPCS and was graphics editor of The Playing-Card journal for many years. He has lived at various times in Chile, England and Wales and is currently living in Extremadura, Spain. Simon's first limited edition pack of playing cards was a replica of a seventeenth century traditional English pack, which he produced from woodblocks and stencils.
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