Gypsy Cards are packs of cards
which can vary in size anything from 16 to 52 instead of having 78 cards as in
a tarot deck. Therefore they are very random in how big is the deck and which
cards are in them.
In 1940, Whiteman Publishers
produced the Old Gypsy Fortune Telling Cards, a deck a 36 cards. One of
the big different between tarot and gypsy cards is that gypsy cards have no
suits. There is however, only suit represented with the King and Queen of
Hearts. This deck above was my very first Gypsy card deck and it came
with a hand cover book.
In the past Gypsy families use
to paint their own hand painted cards most likely with water colour paints or
coloured pencils and each family had their own style or even different amount
of cards to each deck.
My smallest deck is 16 cards
only which came from Germany. No book available with this. My largest the Paintly Deck from a supplier
in Sydney Australia this deck has 52 cards in it and it did come with a booklet
with the meanings of each card.
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