Gouache on Board Oversized Rider-Waite Inspired Handmade Tarot Cards tree trunk Thanks to the original research

Thanks to the original research of another seller out there who found a similar toy and did a lot of digging to figure out its origins (these are quite rare

and signed EP in lower right

plus the terrific original box with red

which would pretty much disappear if taped from the backside

one color at a time

Gouache on Board Oversized Rider-Waite Inspired Handmade Tarot Cards tree trunk Thanks to the original researchI 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