Gouache on Board Oversized Rider-Waite Inspired Handmade Tarot Cards 1940s art Plus the great petit point

Plus the great petit point (tiny needlepoint) basket of flowers at the center surrounded by green and red ribbon knotted to form roses and vines

Watercolor on watercolor type card

and the interior enamel is in near perfect condition

It would look fantastic at the center of a mid-century table or sideboard

And how much more civilized to use these to brush lint (and dog hair

Gouache on Board Oversized Rider-Waite Inspired Handmade Tarot Cards 1940s art Plus the great petit pointI 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