The first fortune-telling cards: Lenhall Fortune-Telling Deck

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The early divination deck, Lenthall Fortune-Telling Deck, still survived today, is a 52 cards fortune-telling deck which was originally designed by Dormann Newman and published by John Lenthall of The Talbot, Fleet Street, London, in 1665. Each suit was numbered I to XIII. Odd numbered cards had a sign of the zodiac on them; even numbered cards contained a list of thirteen numbered statements. The Kings had a series of questions one could ask. The court cards were given the names of famous people from myth and legend. These appear to have also been published by James Moxon, a British engravers of geographic and educational cards. These card appear identical with a deck they published as Astrology Cards in 1676. John Lenthall later published a set of Proverb cards, which is the influence source of lately divinatory deck.  Both of them, which still have the indices of French playing-card suit on the top, this prove its origin and the relation with the old divination method with the normal playing-cards deck.
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