Jelly and Tarotlady,

The Mantegna Tarots are in. They are the new Lo Scarabeo decks. I spoke with the distributor and told him I was expecting the Piatnik decks. He told me that somehow Piatnik has claim to the original Mantegna Tarot?? and that Lo Scarabeo cut a deal that allows Piatnik to distribute this deck as well.

All in all they are still a beautiful representation of this historic deck. If you would be so kind as to either PM me with addresses or drop me an email at antonkolduny@att.net I will get them in the post this week.

For some reason I though Tarot Lady had an addy on her homepage but it seems you don't. 

another interesting Mantegna site with losts of images.

http://trionfi.com/mantegna/

My mailing address is on my website:

PO Box 71028
Shorewood, WI 53211


Again, thank you so much!!!

IMHO, TacoTiki, you were correct to eject the bearer of abysmally bad energy!     Cards are cards.  We all have our favorites and our preferences, but in the end they are simply a tool.  They do not change the energy of the individual handling them, and their energy is not altered by that party, either.  If it were so, how could you be expected to sell this deck after it had been in HER possession?  She would have rendered the deck damaged goods!  There is such a thing as being TOO nice.  Under the circumstances, she fell victim to my beloved GIGO principle-garbage in, garbage out.  I believe you did the right thing.

Anton just got back from the Post....Decks are in the mail. He was dissappointed with them, but I like them.  Atanassov did a nice job with these, a very cool subtle silver foil floral design in the background with the original Mantegna images in the forefront.