Nice rewiev, if i get into RWS this seem to be perfect match, i kinda like small cards to carry around, sometimes i got call from friend with burning questions, and these small ones is super!
Arrgh! I have a strongly negative view of those little white books! And I so greatly appreciate decks, such as one designed by Julien Pacaud, that exclude those pesky things. Most of the time, I just end up struggling in terms of what to do with them. My instinct tells me to bin them because there is no educational purpose to them, and all they do is get in the way of putting the cards back in the box. Then I start thinking, What if I want to review decks in the future? Then I will have to keep them so others can see what was included in the box. What's worse, I will actually have to thoroughly read all that nonsense in order to offer a proper review. So I am stuck! Sorry, Robert, I got carried away here 😄Your review was superb! And I love this tinned centennial edition of RWS-without a white booklet-that is 🤣
Hi Sonia - I think we can all throw those little white books away. I often don't even show them in a review. Some indie artists do quite good ones, and if they do, then I mention it. But I think the tradition of the LWB is absurd and totally old-fashioned. Rx
The Centennial Smith Waite is my favourite RWS, I like the easy colours and tea stained texture. I have the standard size with the border, the card stock feels like it contains more paper than most modern decks. A great video.
Now Robert, I do take issue with one point raised in this video. I live by the seaside - that salty sea air might rust the tin and damage those lovely cards! 😅 But seriously, always enjoy your reviews (books and decks). My memory may be wrong, but I think I remember that the LWB from the Universal Waite is equally confusing. On a different note, I recently purchased both the Aquarian and Morgan-Greer in tins - fab!
@@IndigoC333 Tinned tarot is one of life’s great joys! I once lived in Brighton. I had an old VW Beetle and the salty air rusted it away into thin air…
I do think that of the mass marketed RWS decks, the Centennial in a tin, is the best (for me). The only thing about it I regret is the ubiquitous copyright detail printed on every card. After this was published they started hiding the copyrights in the back designs, but they could still be seen. None of the other publishers were so insistent on displaying their copyrights. As to the borderless edition, the extra bits really bothered me, especially, a couple of cards with overhead foliage, I think the Magician was one of them showing a 'squared off' bough of a tree hanging in mid-air, appearing more like an artificially trimmed topiary than natural foliage. Yecch! Not for me. As to the Albano Waite, of the alternate colorings, I prefer the Adam Fronteras version "The Tarot" OOP from the mid-90s. It unfortunately crops some of the images as opposing to adding bits like the borderless here, but I think I prefer that. I'm an RWS nerd too, and would love to see your RWS collection. I stopped counting at about 20 different versions I have. I've always disliked the LWS of the RWS decks in the U.S. Games boxes since the 1970s. They baffled me with clusters of non-synonymous key words. They put me off reading the cards every half a dozen attempts for a couple of decades until the 90s when I simply tossed the book aside and looked into my own ideas about the cards and sought better instructions elsewhere. The only thing I embraced from Waite's book was a line to the effect that the true meaning of the tarot is in the symbols/images(?) I ran with that and skipped the text. I've found key word glossaries are best built on the experiences shared by many others than dictated by one authority.
I have both the full-size and the tinned Waite Smith Centennial and, to be honest, I don't think I've ever opened the little white book. I was happy with the book that came in my earlier RWS deck and I just assumed it was the same.
I would love to see the Scarabeo decks compared to the US games RWS. Thanks again Robert!
Nice rewiev, if i get into RWS this seem to be perfect match, i kinda like small cards to carry around, sometimes i got call from friend with burning questions, and these small ones is super!
Living for that pink. 👍
This is my deck ! I like it... glad I ignored the LWB though.
Arrgh! I have a strongly negative view of those little white books! And I so greatly appreciate decks, such as one designed by Julien Pacaud, that exclude those pesky things. Most of the time, I just end up struggling in terms of what to do with them. My instinct tells me to bin them because there is no educational purpose to them, and all they do is get in the way of putting the cards back in the box. Then I start thinking, What if I want to review decks in the future? Then I will have to keep them so others can see what was included in the box. What's worse, I will actually have to thoroughly read all that nonsense in order to offer a proper review. So I am stuck! Sorry, Robert, I got carried away here 😄Your review was superb! And I love this tinned centennial edition of RWS-without a white booklet-that is 🤣
Hi Sonia - I think we can all throw those little white books away. I often don't even show them in a review. Some indie artists do quite good ones, and if they do, then I mention it. But I think the tradition of the LWB is absurd and totally old-fashioned. Rx
The Centennial Smith Waite is my favourite RWS, I like the easy colours and tea stained texture. I have the standard size with the border, the card stock feels like it contains more paper than most modern decks. A great video.
@@RupertRochester Thanks Nick. It’s a great deck, isn’t it?
Those “little white books,” in my humble opinion, are part of the reason why tarot is seen negatively. The ignorance they perpetuate is astonishing!
Now Robert, I do take issue with one point raised in this video. I live by the seaside - that salty sea air might rust the tin and damage those lovely cards! 😅
But seriously, always enjoy your reviews (books and decks). My memory may be wrong, but I think I remember that the LWB from the Universal Waite is equally confusing. On a different note, I recently purchased both the Aquarian and Morgan-Greer in tins - fab!
@@IndigoC333 Tinned tarot is one of life’s great joys!
I once lived in Brighton. I had an old VW Beetle and the salty air rusted it away into thin air…
@@teatarot4557 Oh that is a shame about the old Beetle! Yes, I am now a tarot-in-a-tin convert.
I do think that of the mass marketed RWS decks, the Centennial in a tin, is the best (for me). The only thing about it I regret is the ubiquitous copyright detail printed on every card. After this was published they started hiding the copyrights in the back designs, but they could still be seen. None of the other publishers were so insistent on displaying their copyrights. As to the borderless edition, the extra bits really bothered me, especially, a couple of cards with overhead foliage, I think the Magician was one of them showing a 'squared off' bough of a tree hanging in mid-air, appearing more like an artificially trimmed topiary than natural foliage. Yecch! Not for me. As to the Albano Waite, of the alternate colorings, I prefer the Adam Fronteras version "The Tarot" OOP from the mid-90s. It unfortunately crops some of the images as opposing to adding bits like the borderless here, but I think I prefer that. I'm an RWS nerd too, and would love to see your RWS collection. I stopped counting at about 20 different versions I have. I've always disliked the LWS of the RWS decks in the U.S. Games boxes since the 1970s. They baffled me with clusters of non-synonymous key words. They put me off reading the cards every half a dozen attempts for a couple of decades until the 90s when I simply tossed the book aside and looked into my own ideas about the cards and sought better instructions elsewhere. The only thing I embraced from Waite's book was a line to the effect that the true meaning of the tarot is in the symbols/images(?) I ran with that and skipped the text. I've found key word glossaries are best built on the experiences shared by many others than dictated by one authority.
@@toadstooltarot I agree!
I have both the full-size and the tinned Waite Smith Centennial and, to be honest, I don't think I've ever opened the little white book. I was happy with the book that came in my earlier RWS deck and I just assumed it was the same.