{"id":2181,"date":"2015-07-24T19:36:32","date_gmt":"2015-07-25T03:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/?p=2181"},"modified":"2015-07-25T11:38:22","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T19:38:22","slug":"mystery-fortune-telling-deck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/?p=2181","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Fortune Telling Deck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend showed me this deck. She found it in the home of an elderly relative who has gone to the Great Reading Room in the Sky.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s in a plain brown box, with no printer, publisher, or author attribution anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>There are 52 cards. Each card has two fortunes on it, as well as a number between 0 and 39 that perhaps corresponded to a further fortune in a companion book. There are some numbers that have two cards (one red and one black), and other numbers have only one card.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_1868.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2182\" src=\"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_1868-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1868\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_1868-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_1868-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I originally thought there might be a Lenormand connection, but the cards and the fortunes don&#8217;t correlate to Lenormand, and the numbering goes to 39, 3 more than the traditional Lenormand deck.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t found anything using web image search. If you have any ideas about what it might be, I&#8217;d love to hear them!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>UPDATED July 25, 2015: The fabulous <a href=\"http:\/\/marciamccordtarotreader.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marcia McCord<\/a> recognized the deck as one she owns. It&#8217;s the 1919 Revelations Fortune Telling Card Deck, printed by The U.S. Playing Card Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Thank you, Marcia!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_1871.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2183\" src=\"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_1871-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1871\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_1871-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_1871-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_1873.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2184\" src=\"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_1873-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1873\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_1873-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_1873-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_1876.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2185\" src=\"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_1876-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1876\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_1876-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_1876-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend showed me this deck. She found it in the home of an elderly relative who has gone to the Great Reading Room in the Sky. It&#8217;s in a plain brown box, with no printer, publisher, or author attribution anywhere. There are 52 cards. Each card has two fortunes on it, as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2181"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2191,"href":"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions\/2191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}