This deck
Philippe VACHIER 1639. 3000 copies hand numbered limited edition. 64 x 122 mm. Sturdy telescopic box. 78 cards Plus two presentation cards bilingual French/English.
A real former cardmaker from Marseille City.
One of the oldest in fact. First cardmakers appeared only in 1605 in Marseille City.
They were legalised in 1631.
His tarot made in 1639 is up to now the oldest complete deck existing from Marseille City.
Only one original copy of it exist worldwide
Type I pattern. Specialists estimes that his woodblocks were used later to produces other tarots such as Jean Payen 1743 tarot. A usual practice in this periods.
On picture attached you see:
Left side = Original tarot unique exemplary
Right side = Restitution proposed by us. Original back.