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| Posted: Wed Aug 15th, 2012 06:44 pm |
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Wendell78
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My name is Wendell .
I live in Denver Colorado USA.
I grew up with a Dad who studied Tarot, he liked to lay them out and do comparative studies of the symbolism. 10 years of study later after he chose to teach at Boulder and Denver "Free" universities, a course he called: The History Philosophy and uses of the Tarot cards. He also did readings for people, and taught others how to read.
As time went on, I became his natural protege, tagging along to his lectures
and helping him with projectors and displays, and was the fly on the wall for many readings. I would get him a new deck every birthday and at Christmas. And I also started to collect my own cards.
My father passed away about 14 years ago and I inherited his collection, and I have combined our collections which is around 125 decks of Tarot, and about 300 novelty or "Art" playing cards. None are normal! In that all decks had to have some sort of unique feature. Otherwise we wouldn't get them, but then I guess every Tarot deck is Unique.
My dad knew many people in the Denver Boulder area during the "Hippie Era"
(mid 1970s) so needless to say I got exposed to a lot of "unique" people and art as I was growing up! I continue to collect cards. My latest acquisition is the "Wild Wood Tarot". I got that deck at "ComicCon" in Denver June 2012. I was lucky enough to buy the deck from one of the actual collaborators Mark Ryan, a very nice man of high intellect. He signed the deck book for me, after a very thought provoking discussion about cards and art.
In the future I will display a list of my collection. I know some decks are fairly rare and may be of interest to a community such as this. I'm very excited to be a part of the "Tarot Collectors Forum" which I stumbled upon purely by accident.
I had no clue that there was this vast of a community of collectors of the Tarot.
This is fantastic!
Happy to be here!
Wendell78
The card shown here is number 14 from the (Keystone) Holy order of Mans deck circa 1971.Attached Image (viewed 55 times):
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| Posted: Wed Aug 15th, 2012 08:43 pm |
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gregory
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Welcome - I am glad to see you finally made it.... 
My copy of that deck is called the Epiphany. Majors only - right ? Did you colour that one ? Mine's black and white...
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| Posted: Wed Aug 15th, 2012 10:40 pm |
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Wendell78
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Hello Gregory,
Yes I did color them.
The Holy Order of MANS created these as lessons to learn the meaning of the cards and symbols within. Very empowering and thought provoking.
There were simlar lessons with the B.O.T.A. group and Paul foster Case and others involving the coloring of the cards. If you can't draw your own this is the next best thing.
I'd be suprised if your cards were exactly this deck. These color your own decks can look similar but careful analysis shows them not to be quite the same.
Same synbols but details and drawing styles vari.
Yes they are major arcana only.
Did they come with coloring instructions? If they did I strongly recommend you try to color them. You might find it spiritually enlightening!
I'm glad I made it also.
Best Regards...
Wendell78
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| Posted: Thu Aug 16th, 2012 09:48 am |
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gregory
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They did indeed, as well as a card with details of all the symbols, colours etc. - and no; I am a COLLECTOR and do not do such things :) Some day I may scan them and colour the scans.
I did colour a BOTA once. So badly that I had to buy a new copy
They are in a gold box calling themselves on the outside Tarot 22 Keys, and are published by the Epiphany Press. Epiphany being the name by which I bought them from Magickal Childe, in New York (OMG the year after they were published  in 1980) - that is how they ended up named in my database ! But they are the Mans. I is a Collector. I KNOW this stuff !
Why be surorised. The members here are the ones who own class decks. I've been at this since 1975 myself, and others probably longer.
PS Holly's page shows that I have the second edition, 1979: I looked it up as your typeface is different - and indeed....
http://home.comcast.net/~vilex/HOrdMansDetails.html
Last edited on Thu Aug 16th, 2012 03:37 pm by gregory
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| Posted: Sat Aug 18th, 2012 12:53 pm |
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truelighth
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Hi Wendell,
Good to see you here on the forum. I like what you did with the Holy Order of Mans deck. That looks great! I myself never coloured it, but I did colour the Pendragon Mother Tarot. Which is also a 70's deck. I didn't colour the original though, I scanned it in.
And Gregory, yes, there are two versions of the Holy Order of Mans. The first edition came without a box, just in plastic wrapping. The second edition came in the gold box. I got two of course, since they are RWS clones 
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nicole
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welcome to the group :)
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