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Can anyone help with this tarot back design?

Postby Replicant » Feb 28th, '09, 01:08



Amazon (and other places) have a blank-faced tarot deck for sale which features this back design...

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Does anyone know which standard tarot deck has matching backs?

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Postby Peter Marucci » Feb 28th, '09, 04:52

Rider-Waite, definitely. And Probably many others, as it is a standard back.

But be careful if you want the backs of the blanks to match the backs of the 'faced' cards; they may NOT match.

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Postby Craig Browning » Feb 28th, '09, 05:20

Yep.. pretty much the standard back for the lower end version of the deck.

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Postby Part-Timer » Feb 28th, '09, 13:07

I have two Rider-Waite decks (of the standard, old-colouring type), and the back in question matches the older version of those two decks.

As Peter cautions, it is not an exact match, as the card quality is slightly different, and the colour of the blank deck is slightly more vivid.

I recently got a pocket edition of the traditional Rider-Waite, and the card stock again matches the blank deck superficially, but isn't quite the same (the size is, of course, also different).

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Postby Replicant » Feb 28th, '09, 23:27

Thank you, gentlemen. It's a shame they are not a close match but I still think I can put the blank deck to use.

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