Melissa Zupan | Deck Comparison: Ferol Humphrey’s American Tarot Light and Aged Color Variations @melissazupan6026 | Uploaded May 2020 | Updated October 2024, 6 hours ago.
New York tarot reader Ferol Humphrey loved the DeLaurence deck so much, she approached tarot creator Marco Benedetti to see if he could re-create it. In the end, Benedetti created two decks which he named after Humphrey: the aged and light color variations of Ferol Humphrey's American Tarot.
I know that Benedetti got the art for the aged variation from scans of images from a 1918 DeLaurence Pictorial Key to the tarot, and to my knowledge, this is the first time those images have been turned into cards: they looked very different from the cards DeLaurence actually produced. I am not sure if Benedetti improved these images in to create the light version of the deck, which should look more like an actual DeLaurence deck. Let's see how well he did!
The decks I am looking at today are Gamecrafter's printings of the deck, and they can be found here:
Light Colors: thegamecrafter.com/games/ferol-humphrey-s-american-tarot
Aged Colors: thegamecrafter.com/games/ferol-humphrey-s-american-tarot-aged-colors-version-
Benedetti also offers a custom, handmade option. More information on this and on the creation of these deck can be found on Ferol Humphrey's website: ferolhumphrey.com/ferolhumphreysamericantarot.html
UPDATES: I don't think Benedetti had a 1918 DeLaurence Key and scanned the images himself. I'm pretty sure he took them from this website I've linked below. The images look fine on the website, but they are relatively small. If you were to enlarge them and change the aspect ratio, I think that would account for the weird pixelation and poor image quality on the American Tarot cards.
bookspublicdomain.com/ReligiousTexts/TheIllustratedKeyTotheTarotTheVeilofDivinationbyLWdeLaurence_.htm#I2
Similarly, I don't think Benedetti manipulated the 1918 images for the light colors deck. I subsequently found a Flickr where someone had uploaded all these images in 2017. They have the same issues with coloring I noticed in the Chariot and the Sun and a few other cards. I think maybe he just pulled them from here.
flickr.com/photos/circasassy/page5
New York tarot reader Ferol Humphrey loved the DeLaurence deck so much, she approached tarot creator Marco Benedetti to see if he could re-create it. In the end, Benedetti created two decks which he named after Humphrey: the aged and light color variations of Ferol Humphrey's American Tarot.
I know that Benedetti got the art for the aged variation from scans of images from a 1918 DeLaurence Pictorial Key to the tarot, and to my knowledge, this is the first time those images have been turned into cards: they looked very different from the cards DeLaurence actually produced. I am not sure if Benedetti improved these images in to create the light version of the deck, which should look more like an actual DeLaurence deck. Let's see how well he did!
The decks I am looking at today are Gamecrafter's printings of the deck, and they can be found here:
Light Colors: thegamecrafter.com/games/ferol-humphrey-s-american-tarot
Aged Colors: thegamecrafter.com/games/ferol-humphrey-s-american-tarot-aged-colors-version-
Benedetti also offers a custom, handmade option. More information on this and on the creation of these deck can be found on Ferol Humphrey's website: ferolhumphrey.com/ferolhumphreysamericantarot.html
UPDATES: I don't think Benedetti had a 1918 DeLaurence Key and scanned the images himself. I'm pretty sure he took them from this website I've linked below. The images look fine on the website, but they are relatively small. If you were to enlarge them and change the aspect ratio, I think that would account for the weird pixelation and poor image quality on the American Tarot cards.
bookspublicdomain.com/ReligiousTexts/TheIllustratedKeyTotheTarotTheVeilofDivinationbyLWdeLaurence_.htm#I2
Similarly, I don't think Benedetti manipulated the 1918 images for the light colors deck. I subsequently found a Flickr where someone had uploaded all these images in 2017. They have the same issues with coloring I noticed in the Chariot and the Sun and a few other cards. I think maybe he just pulled them from here.
flickr.com/photos/circasassy/page5
