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I’m from NYC, and I first learned about tarot when I was taking an undergraduate course at Queens College called Sociology of Death. I did my research paper on Symbolism in the Tarot Death Card, picking up several dozen mainly mainstream decks for images to use. This was the start of my collection, but by the time another collector introduced me to the late Frank Jensen, my first collection exceeded over a thousand tarots, most quite rare. When Jeannette and I started Tarotgarden in 2001, we imported decks from more than 40 countries, and we were the only website mentioned In Kaplan’s Encyclopedia vol. IV. Unfortunately Jeannette and I had different visions for how our business should evolve, so I sold her my half of Tarotgarden and my first collection in 2003, and I took a long break from tarot to travel and get my first Master’s degree in Psychology of Culture.
I recently returned to graduate studies for my second Master’s degree, this time in Ancient and Medieval History, and I have been relating my research to tarot whenever possible. I would like to do a thesis on symbolism in the Tarot Devil card, but am not having much look finding an appropriate advisor for that topic. I started collecting again because of this, and I have been able to replace many of my favorites from my first collection (special thanks to Adam and also to Steve here, as well as to Lily Stone and Hollywood Kat). However a few remain elusive and I am hoping to tempt some of you to sell or trade me those exceptionally hard to find tarots, or help me with leads. The ones I particularly still want to to replace are the Venetian Historical, the Brazilian Namur, Mexican Acuario by Rebetez, and the strangely shaped Hungarian deck Ismerd Meg Onmagad a Tarot Segitsegevel. Please message me if you have any information about any of these.
I will be posting my current collection list soon, it is currently around 350, not counting another 150 or so I’ve given to my oldest daughter. I don’t think my second collection will ever reach the extent and value of my first collection (which included originals of Michael’s Tarot, all the originals from Shandra McNeill, the original 1951 Taro Sacerdotal, the Iona shown in Kaplan, and many rare Italian art tarots that Argeo of Alida found for me) but I am happy to have some of the new interesting indie decks that came out while I was away from collecting, as well as many new (to me) imported decks. I will probably try to keep this new collection down to under 500.
My husband and I were planning on moving to New Orleans but our plans are currently postponed. I had hoped to sell tarots in the French Market there, and I picked up a few extras that I can now instead use towards trades for the Venetian Historical, Namur, Acuario and the Hungarian tarot I am seeking. These include a Merlusine, Folchi Erte, Gruyeres, Minotarot, Sternenmadchens, Steiner, Szabo, Lubok, Hanslian Engel, Japanese Jugendstil and many others, and there are probably around a hundred in my collection I would also consider using for trades. I will gratefully pay or trade their value several times over...I know how difficult they are to find, and it would be more than worth it to me to be able to finally replace them. Thanks for reading all this!
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