Details of the 1JJ Swiss Tarot
Solandia's Summary: The 1JJ Swiss Tarot is an older style of tarot deck, a Marseilles variant. The cards are black and white illustrations of nineteenth century figures coloured with blocks of red, blue, green and yellow.
Creator(s):
Stuart Kaplan
Type: Tarot Deck Number of Cards: 78 Major Arcana: 22 Minor Arcana: 56
Card Size: 2.37 x 4.37 inches = 6.03cm x 11.11cm
Publisher: Published by US Games
1970
Deck Tradition: Marseilles
Minor Arcana Style: Marseilles-Style Pips
Suits: Coupes, Deniers, Epees, Batons
Court Cards: Roi, Reine, Chevalier, Valet
The Fool is 0 Strength is 11 Justice is 8
Deck Themes:
Marseilles
Other Decks by Creator(s):
Tarot Classic
by Stuart Kaplan.
Card Back: Unknown
Languages:
English
Excerpt of the
1JJ Swiss Tarot review by Steve Gustafson: This was my first Tarot deck. It was not my last.
Early on, I became somewhat uncomfortable with it,
because of things I was reading. I bought it at a Spencer
Gifts or some such purveyor of enlightenment. This
would have been in 1975 or so. I would have been around
fifteen.
First, most of the books assumed that you owned a
Rider-Waite-Smith deck. I found it less than adequate b... read more.
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