Russian Gypsy Fortunetelling Cards

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Recently, I purchased the Russian Gypsy Fortune Telling Cards box set by Svetlana Alexandrovna Touchkoff. The set comes with a book and a box of 25 cards in a very sturdy and attractive slipcase. The book that comes with the set isn't a "little white book" (LWB), but a nicely bound hardcover book of 182 pages. This oracle deck has 25 cards and they are the most unique cards I have ever seen. This deck is breathtakingly beautiful. The cards are square and each is quartered on the diagonals. Within each resultant triangle there is one half of a square illustration. When I initially saw these cards, they reminded me of quilt blocks. The colors are vibrant and the illustrations are very detailed (viewing them as scanned images doesn't do them justice). The one flaw I would have to say this deck has is that the card stock seems very thin and this may limit the useful life of the deck. Although there are only 25 cards, there are a total of 50 illustrations depicted in the quarters of the cards. The backs of the cards are black with a gold design. The cards are intended to be used in four different positions so reversals are used with this deck. I will explain more about this later in thi

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