Gouache on Board Oversized Rider-Waite Inspired Handmade Tarot Cards James Bone collage drawing happily munching away

happily munching away

They are made by machine and thus exact

with the mark dating them to sometime between 1903-1930

From top to bottom in the first photo

The tops screw off easily and on tightly

Gouache on Board Oversized Rider-Waite Inspired Handmade Tarot Cards James Bone collage drawing happily munching awayI have no idea if the person who made these really fun tarot cards paintings followed through with making a complete the deck (I would guess not, as the major arcana, of which there are 21 of 22 here just missing The Sun are the most exciting, and what a lot of effort they alone took!) These are closely based on the famous Rider Waite tarot deck, created by Pamela Colman Smith in 1909, though the hand and sensibility of their maker is very much