“The Military Fortune Tellers” was published by H. V. Loring, in Chicago, in 1917. The deck is 52 cards; but the four suits are stars, hearts, bells, and doves, and the face cards are Jack, Nurse, and Soldier. The instructions are curiously garbled: “This is a Military Sectional Fortune Telling Chart forming a square when laid out. (See Diagram) and is made card-form for the purpose of shuffling or mixing so as to obtain a different meaning each time laid out… The cards forming a direct course circularly, horizontally, vertically and diagonally have particular significance only.”
The box has a pleasing severity:
(Posted by Doug Skinner)
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1 Derek // May 21, 2013 at 7:17 pm
Nice box design. Looks like what you’d see on TV after a nuclear “event.”