Found on the internet........

 

From the Potter & Potter auction, where it was passed at an estimated $ 3000 - 5000.
Note that August Petrtyl is mentioned as publisher. Can't make out the copyright date, could be 1922.
What immediately catches the eye is the different back design, but still with the copyright in name of August Petrtyl.

 

Steve Bacon offers this deck at $ 2000, published by Publicity Art Studios and copyrighted 1934 "by August Petryl".
But it still has what I consider the original back design. Old stock, bought by the Publicity Art Sudios?

 

Hochman p. 242.

 

 

 

 

 

A NOTE.....

 

 

It's a confusing description. I don't know which deck was used to make this description, but there is no such thing as a "74 cards Tarot deck". All Tarot decks consist of 78 cards.
Apparently the described deck was formed by the Green Spade set, which includes the joker (or the French "excuse", also a trump in Tarot terms) and the other 21 trumps (here called atouts, the French name). 
So the described deck must have been either an incomplete deck or a composed one.

The knights (or "chevaliers" in French) are called mounted Frontiersmen here. However, they are part of each suit in any regular Tarot deck. So they were not added to the mysterious 74 cards version.

 

 

 

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