Summary: the Marseilles cards are not old at all they are collected and named around 1930 by the French cartomancer Paul Marteau the word Cartomancer means the art of reading through cards The oldest set of cards is probably the Cary Yale Visconti deck Image above which is a hand painted deck of cards coming from Italy It was the high noble family called Visconti this
Image Dimensions: 300 x 603
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