Tarot Actuel 1984
Major arcana to cut out, issued with the French magazine Actuel, using photographic images.
Playing cards and Tarot cards issued free with magazines are a much neglected and poorly documented area of collecting. This particular set of major arcana was issued with the French magazine Actuel in January 1984. The 22 ‘cards’ are printed on one fold-out sheet, stapled to the centre of the magazine. The images are all photographic and, somewhat bizarrely, feature fashion accessories and clothes by the likes of Chanel, Ted Lapidus and Thierry Mugler! Instructions for use and suggested meanings are printed in the magazine itself. On the reverse of the ‘cards’ is an advert for St Marc soap powder/detergent!
22 cards to cut out, printed on one fold-out sheet, stapled to the centre of the magazine Actuel, 1984.
The magazine Actuel went through several incarnations, surviving in various forms from 1967 until 1994.
Above: instruction notes for the Tarot cards published by Actuel magazine, Paris, France, 1984.
By Roddy Somerville
France • Member since May 31, 2022
Roddy started collecting stamps on his 8th birthday. In 1977 he joined the newly formed playing-card department at Stanley Gibbons in London before setting up his own business in Edinburgh four years later. His collecting interests include playing cards, postcards, stamps (especially playing cards on stamps) and sugar wrappers. He is a Past President of the Scottish Philatelic Society, a former Chairman of the IPCS, a Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards and Curator of the WCMPC’s collection of playing cards. He lives near Toulouse in France.
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