Antique Italian Tarot cards By Faustino Solesio Genova, Italy, c.1880.

Antique Italian Tarot cards By Faustino Solesio Genova, Italy, c.1880.

Complete deck of 78 cards. 22 Major Arcana & 56 Minor Suits.

Printed & published by Faustino Solesio, Genova, Italy, c.1880. Titles written in Italian. Brilliant palette of colours with shades of red, blue, yellow & green. Typical Italian styled suits of cups, coins, batons, and swords. 4 minor suit series of A-10, knave, knight, queen & king.

Size 10.6 cm X 6.2 cm

All tarot cards and their meaning

The Major Arcana are the named or numbered cards in a cartomantic tarot pack, the name being originally given by occultists to the trump cards of a normal tarot pack used for playing card games. There are usually 22 such cards in a standard 78-card pack, typically numbered from 0 to 21 (in card playing packs, there is no 0, the unnumbered card is the Fool). The name is not used by tarot card game players.

The minor arcana are the remaining 56 cards in the tarot deck. Cards numbered from 1 to 10 are included plus the honors or figures: jack, knight, queen and king.