Picture Show — Zodiac Fortune Telling Cards
Zodiac Celebrities fortune-telling cards presented with 'Picture Show' magazine, 1930. The cards were printed in black and red and supplied as uncut sheets inserted into the magazine.
Picture Show Zodiac Fortune Telling Cards, October 1930
Zodiac Celebrities fortune-telling cards presented with 'Picture Show' magazine, 1930. The cards were printed in black and red, and supplied as uncut sheets inserted into the magazine in the October 1930 issue. The court cards depict celebrities of the day. The backs have the divinatory interpretations printed on them for both the upright and reversed aspects.
See also: Argentinean Tarocco • Tarot Egipcios Kier • Picture Book of Ana Cortez • Cartas Gitanas • 17th Century Fortune-Telling Cards • Geistliche Karten, 1718 • German Fortune Telling cards, c.1818 • Book of Fate • Mlle Lenormand Cartomancy • Jason Ennis Tarot • Self-Nurturing Solitaire • Naipes Tu Destino • Ramses II Tarot • 72 Names Cards • Cartas Blancas • Cartomancy & Divination Cards • Edyta Gdek Tarot • Tarocco Bolognese • Tarocco Piemontesi • Welsh Tarot • Minchiate • Tarot
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