Random Reading - #104

Here's another newish addition I've been wanting to showcase. I bought this one because I recognised it as a "younger sister" of the oldest deck in my collection (details below).

Glück – Dieb – Reichthum – Richter – Unbeständigkeit
Fortune – Thief – Wealth – Judge - Inconstancy

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The above deck, the "younger sister", is Oracolo del Danubio, "Danube Oracle", produced by the Spanish division of Lo Scarabeo, Orbis Fabbri, in 2002. It's a reprint of a deck published by Wilhelm Hegenauer, Vienna, circa 1890. 

Die Sybille Wahrsagekarten

Prior to this, I'd spotted my deck's "older sister", Die Sibylle Wahrsagekarten, "The Sibyl Fortune-Telling Cards", published by Silberschnur Verlag. This one is a reprint of a deck published by Johann Conrad Jegel, Nuremberg, circa 1870.

Aufschlag Karten, published by W Hendl

My original deck, in both senses, is a dog-eared but remarkably tidy copy of a deck simply named Aufschlag Karten, designed by Josef Neumayer and published by Wilhelm Hendl, Vienna, circa 1880 – the "middle sister". 

Aufschlag can be translated as "service" or "surcharge", but I think the meanings that apply here are "serve" (in the sense of hitting a tennis ball), "impact" and "crash". It strikes me (no pun intended) that this is the idea – Slap Upside the Head Cards. 😉 

And how's this for synchronicity? The Glück and Dieb cards were together, in that order, in all three decks.