Melissa Zupan | Crackle Back Showdown Round 1: Vintage Pam D vs. MPC Study Deck @melissazupan6026 | Uploaded March 2020 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
There seemed to be some interest in seeing my vintage Pam D Rider tarot deck up against a couple contemporary decks with similar backs: AGM's "The Tarot of A.E. Waite" and a print-on-demand deck available through Make Playing Cards under the name "Study Deck for Tarot Course." In this first round, we pit the vintage deck against the Study Deck.
As I mention in the video, the Study Deck was made by Parkson Kwok using some barely re-touched images of collector Kenji Ishimatsu's copy of Pam A. Kwok largely left these images uncorrected unless a card was very damaged. For example, Ishimatsu's Pam A has a small portion of the 3 of Pentacles card missing. Kwok patched that with art from other cards to make that unnoticeable. The final result is a deck that is about as close to a copy of Pam A as most of us are likely to get.
How does this Pam A copy hold up to a real D? Let's find out!
You can find Kwok's study deck here: makeplayingcards.com/sell/marketplace/study-deck-for-tarot-course.html
You can see scans of Ishimatsu's Pam A here: muzendo.jp/blog/?p=19
There seemed to be some interest in seeing my vintage Pam D Rider tarot deck up against a couple contemporary decks with similar backs: AGM's "The Tarot of A.E. Waite" and a print-on-demand deck available through Make Playing Cards under the name "Study Deck for Tarot Course." In this first round, we pit the vintage deck against the Study Deck.
As I mention in the video, the Study Deck was made by Parkson Kwok using some barely re-touched images of collector Kenji Ishimatsu's copy of Pam A. Kwok largely left these images uncorrected unless a card was very damaged. For example, Ishimatsu's Pam A has a small portion of the 3 of Pentacles card missing. Kwok patched that with art from other cards to make that unnoticeable. The final result is a deck that is about as close to a copy of Pam A as most of us are likely to get.
How does this Pam A copy hold up to a real D? Let's find out!
You can find Kwok's study deck here: makeplayingcards.com/sell/marketplace/study-deck-for-tarot-course.html
You can see scans of Ishimatsu's Pam A here: muzendo.jp/blog/?p=19
