Karmic

The record

I first discovered these card images in 2010 on a photo web site. Since then the web site has come down, and I’ve been pulling my hair out trying to find out more about them. I finally bought a deck from a bookseller in the Ukraine on his eBay web site. He didn’t know much about them either, and the box and instruction sheet are in Cyrillic as well as the cards. The eBay seller thought that my deck had been printed before the fall of the USSR so they were considered contraband. They are simply called “Karti Taro” on the blue box. The cards themselves are about the size of a poker deck, 60 mm by 90 mm (2.36”x 3.54”). That is attractive to me since I have short stubby fingers and a lot of my Tarot decks are hard to handle because of their size. The card backs are a symmetrical gold design, so reversals won’t be apparent. They are sturdy and flexible with a slight sheen on the face side and dull backs, like the white and gray cardboard that comes in mens’ shirts. There are also little stubs in the center top and bottom of each card where they were pulled out of the print sheets. Nice homey touch, in my opinion. All 78 cards are present, and the major arcana conform to the A.E. Waite s

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