Specifications for Spring Sibilla
Card Size 57x89mm
Full color box
Full color booklet (30 pages)
60 cards
Bordered deck
350 gsm thick cardstock
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The Thomson Leng is based on the original 1930's printing of the deck.
Original Thomson-Leng decks, and even some of their replicas,
used to be quite expensive, numbering in the hundreds of pounds (and
some are still fetching these price ranges) but over the years we've
tried to turn that around and make it more affordable by printing our
own, based on a good quality intact original.
Things of note: The Wands are "rods", and the Pentacles are "pence". Hierophant is named "Great Priest", and High Priestess is named "Great Priestess. The Fool is number "21", rather than "0", and Strength is number "11" and Justice is number "8". With the exception of the courts, the wands suit takes after the Marseille deck, as opposed to the Waite-Smith, with various formations made from the rods, which might indicate that more than one artist was assigned at the time, though DC Thomson has told us that they have no record of this, or who the original artists were. Nonetheless the style of illustration, at least for us, seem to reflect the style of the time, and I feel is slightly similar to the Waite-Smith.
Specifications for Thomson Leng
78 cards plus original title card and box card
booklet is same size as cards and the interior has 32 pages. (includes 3 spreads)
350gsm cardstock
bridge card in size Card Size 57x89mm
bordered deck
linen cardstock