Baroque Bohemian Cats Tarot, 1st edition
Cats
Baroque costuming
79 cards (78 + Hermes), plus a title card and a 200 page companion book. No LWB and no box for the cards -- the book and deck came packaged together in a large set box.
Cards measure 12.9 cm tall x 7.9 cm wide (5 inches tall x 3 inches wide).
The card stock is of exceptionally high quality, and quite flexible, with a matte finish.
Backs are reversible.
The majors are unnumbered.
The minors are fully scenic and follow RWS conventions.
Suits are Coins, Cups, Wands, and Swords. Courts are Page, Knight, Queen, and King.
Set was originally priced at $35.
Mahony, Karen
Ukolov, Alex
<a href="http://www.bohemian-cats.com/tarot/hermes.htm">http://www.bohemian-cats.com/tarot/hermes.htm</a>
Magic Realist Press, Czech Republic
2004
79 cards
English
RWS
9780954500726
Tarot of the Cat People
Cat People
Fantasy
78 cards, mass market, standard size. Includes two cards with blank fronts. Accompanied by a standard LWB.
Kuykendall, Karen
U.S. Games
1985
78 cards
English
RWS
Cat-Rot Cards
Cats
22 majors plus a title card and an informational card, accompanied by a foldout instructional sheet, housed in a sheer yellow organza drawstring bag.
Cards are about poker sized, measuring 8.5 cm tall x 6 cm wide.
The cards have square corners, are printed on plain white stock, and are coated with a shiny lamination..
The backs are plain white and thus fully reversible.
This is very much a theme deck / art deck. Each card features one or more cats in a minimalistic and humorous scene.
Strength is 8 and Justice is 11. The Fool is numbered as 0.
There are three noticeable misspellings on the cards, as follows: Strength is spelled "Strenght," Wheel of Fortune is spelled "Wheen of Fortune," and "Justice" is spelled "Justuce."
An interesting oversight on the foldout LWB sheet is that Justice is missing from the list.
Self-published by the artist, in Belgium.
Available from the artist's Etsy store for $25 USD.
I'm unsure about the publication year; I first purchased a copy from Etsy in February 2011, but it may have first been available in 2010. I cannot find a definitive date yet.
Personal note: I have two copies of this deck, which was entirely accidental. (I'd forgotten that I'd ordered it, and ordered a second copy.) Only one copy came with the instructional sheet.
van Bruggen, Maria
<a href="http://www.elfies-world.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.elfies-world.com</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.zazzle.com/cat_alogue" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.zazzle.com/cat_alogue</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/catswithattitude" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.etsy.com/shop/catswithattitude</a>
Self-published
2011
22 cards
English
Other
Cat's House Tarot
Cats
78 cards, with a softcover guidebook (in Japanese), in an upright, lidded tin box.<br /><br />The cards are longer than average, measuring 7 cm wide x 13 cm long. The card stock is flexible, with a semi-matte finish that is smooth on the back and very slightly textured on the front.<br /><br />The card backs feature a reversible black and white design.<br /><br />Strength is VIII and Justice is XI. The Fool is numbered 0.<br /><br />Suits are Cups, Swords, Wands, and Coins. The court cards are Page, Knight, Queen, and King.<br /><br />The minor arcana are plain pips.<br /><br />There is no date, or at least none that I can identify, on the cards or box. Adam McLean has mentioned this deck online a couple of times, both times listing a different year (2000 as well as 2001). <br /><br />Likewise, I'm not sure of the publisher's name. The name "SSS Factory" appears in English on the last page of the booklet.<br /><br />I don't know the original retail price of this deck, nor do I recall what I paid. But for the sake of reference, I wrote a note that a copy was for sale in July 2015 on eBay (offered by the seller known as baby_dream) for $78 USD. This was at some point after I'd bought my copy.Â
Hiroko, Miyamoto
SSS Factory (?)
[2000] or [2001]
78 cards
Japanese
Plain pips
Chat du Marseille Tarot
Cats
Conver Marseille
Majors-only deck consisting of 22 cards plus a title card and LWB, in a lined fabric pouch that ties shut.
My copy is part of the 1st printing, from 2004.
The cards are smaller than average, measuring 9.6 cm tall x 6.3 cm wide (3.75 inches tall x 2.5 inches wide).
The card stock is regular white fairly lightweight stock of the same sort you can buy in an office supply store. The card corners are left square.
Card backs are reversible.
The art is black and white, and based on the Conver Marseille deck of 1761.
Justice is 8 and Force (Strength) is 11. The Fool is unnumbered.
By the way, this continues to be (as of 2011, when this entry was made) one of the best values out there -- only $8.00 for a new copy from the artist's website, which INCLUDES postage to anywhere in the world.
Moertl, Elaine
<a href="http://www.falconsmew.com/marseille_tarot.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.falconsmew.com/marseille_tarot.html</a>
<a href="http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/cards/chat-du-marseille/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/cards/chat-du-marseille/</a>
Self published (Falcon's Mew)
2004
22 cards
French
TdM
1st printing
Cute Cat Tarot
Cats
78 cards + a bonus card (The Alignment) + a small format, 199-page softcover guidebook in a sturdy cardboard box with a magnetic flip-top cover. I also received a postcard-sized copy of The Fool card along with my deck.<br /><br />The cards measure 6.9 cm wide x 12 cm long. The card stock is fairly inflexible; I wouldn't recommend riffle shuffling. The cards have a smooth, flat, matte finish. The edges are gilded in iridescent silver.<br /><br />The card back design is pink and white, and non-reversible.<br /><br />Strength is VIII and Justice is XI. The Fool is numbered 0.<br /><br />Suits are Wands, Cups, Swords, and Pentacles. The court cards are Page, Knight, Queen, and King.<br /><br />The minor arcana are scenic in the RWS style, though there's enough variation that I wouldn't call this a true RWS clone.<br /><br />The art is sweet and family-friendly; there's no nudity to be found, and even the traditionally "dark" cards are (such as The Devil and The Tower) are rendered in an approachable, non-frightening way.<br /><br />The guidebook is better than most, and includes a section on the real-life cats that served as the inspiration for the cards, providing their photos and biographies.<br /><br />I am mildly confused regarding the name(s) of the creators/artists, as the information varies between the guidebook and the box. The back of the box, for example, credits Shela Usadi and Sonia Febyola as the <em>creators</em>, Silvana N. S. and Sonia Febyola as the <em>artists</em>, and Shela Usadi as the <em>author </em>of the text. <br /><br />In contrast, the guidebook credits Shela Usadi as the author and Sonia Usadi as the illustrator, with no mention of Silvana. Also, it isn't clear if Sonia's last name is currently Usadi or Febyola.<br /><br />No date of publication is given on the cards, the box, or in the guidebook. My source for the publication year is the Kickstarter campaign information. I was a backer at the $40 level, for one copy of the deck. I received my copy in the late autumn of 2020.<br /><br /><strong>Note</strong>: The back of the guidebook includes an Acknowledgements section, listing the names of all of the Kickstarter backers. My name is included in the list (on page 197).
Usadi, Sonia (artist)
Usadi, Shela (author)
<a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cutecardtarot/cute-cat-tarot" target="_blank" title="Cute Cat Tarot Kickstarter" rel="noreferrer noopener">Cute Cat Tarot -- Kickstarter campaign</a>
Self-published
2020
79 cards
English
RWS