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Bradius1 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 18, 2025 11:48 am The three decks on the left are Nouveau Pearl limited, Nouveau Bijou limited, and Nouveau Gemme limited. These were the standard cards in a handmade tuck made by the artist. There were only 30 of each made. I happen to have #1 of all three. I haven't heard from the artist, Karin Yan in years. I wonder how she is doing. I really liked her work. She also made 3 different card clips as well that I have. Sorry, but not planning on selling my set and would probably be one of my last sets to let go of. The deck in the bottom center is Nouveau Gemme Prototype. I am not familiar with that one and can't help you at all other than I did find it in Portfolio52. Karin seemed to enjoy hand-making a few very limited pieces, which is why I really cherish those I do have. I did correspond with her a little and she was super nice. Because there are so few that even exist, those are going to likely be hard to source. Shade posted some nice photos of his set and a few others of Karins viewtopic.php?p=236529&hilit=nouveau#p236529

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Bradius1 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 18, 2025 11:48 am The three decks on the left are Nouveau Pearl limited, Nouveau Bijou limited, and Nouveau Gemme limited. These were the standard cards in a handmade tuck made by the artist. There were only 30 of each made. I happen to have #1 of all three. I haven't heard from the artist, Karin Yan in years. I wonder how she is doing. I really liked her work. She also made 3 different card clips as well that I have. Sorry, but not planning on selling my set and would probably be one of my last sets to let go of. The deck in the bottom center is Nouveau Gemme Prototype. I am not familiar with that one and can't help you at all other than I did find it in Portfolio52. Karin seemed to enjoy hand-making a few very limited pieces, which is why I really cherish those I do have. I did correspond with her a little and she was super nice. Because there are so few that even exist, those are going to likely be hard to source. Shade posted some nice photos of his set and a few others of Karins viewtopic.php?p=236529&hilit=nouveau#p236529

That golden deck (third row on the far right) I know I have. I think I have two of them, but I can't think of the name to save my soul. I have been going through my Portfolio52 collection to try to find it, but my collection takes an insane amount of time to scroll through. Again, not something I would be prepared to part with personally and not sure where it is. I think I have a vague idea where it is, but have been disappointed when trying to hunt for stuff in the bowels of my cabinets and boxes. I recall that was a really limited issue of100 or less, but I can't remember off hand.

The deck on the bottom left is Commoners Number 5 by Ian Cumpstey. I checked out his website as he often has his old decks available, but those are showing sold out. https://www.northerndisplayers.co.uk/cards.html. Ian is sadly not a popular card designer, but I am a big fan of his work. I know I have two, but no idea where they are located. That one shouldn't be too hard to locate.

Some others will need to help you out on the other decks.

Timmargh wrote: ↑Mon Aug 18, 2025 12:19 pm

Bradius1 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 18, 2025 11:48 am The three decks on the left are Nouveau Pearl limited, Nouveau Bijou limited, and Nouveau Gemme limited. These were the standard cards in a handmade tuck made by the artist. There were only 30 of each made. I happen to have #1 of all three. I haven't heard from the artist, Karin Yan in years. I wonder how she is doing. I really liked her work. She also made 3 different card clips as well that I have. Sorry, but not planning on selling my set and would probably be one of my last sets to let go of. The deck in the bottom center is Nouveau Gemme Prototype. I am not familiar with that one and can't help you at all other than I did find it in Portfolio52. Karin seemed to enjoy hand-making a few very limited pieces, which is why I really cherish those I do have. I did correspond with her a little and she was super nice. Because there are so few that even exist, those are going to likely be hard to source. Shade posted some nice photos of his set and a few others of Karins viewtopic.php?p=236529&hilit=nouveau#p236529

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I believe that there were only 10 of the Gemme prototype. I did have the entire set at one point, but broke it up due to more than one passionate person offering me the world to do so, I have no regrets, and it felt good to help some fellow collectors achieve a goal.

kevork wrote: ↑Mon Aug 18, 2025 9:00 pm Karine is available to chat on Instagram if anyone wants to connect, though she doesn’t have any of these decks available. You can find her at @akarinei.

I’ve also been on the lookout for the Nouveau Pearl decks. Because of their extremely limited nature, they’re very hard to come by. In my three and a half years of collecting, I’ve only seen two change hands privately, one being the aforementioned Tim transaction.

That white Mantra deck appears to be a tuck variation. At only x/10, it’s incredibly difficult to track down.

The top right is the Hummingbird gilded. Those surface every so often. I picked up the full set back when they were still available at retail. Shame that Kellar has disappeared off the face of the earth.

To the left of the Caravan deck, you’ve got the Russian version of Transsiberian Express. I'd love a reprint of these some day.

Altogether, these are some serious rarities. Owning even one of them is an accomplishment. Best of luck in the hunt.

zuer wrote: ↑Mon Aug 18, 2025 12:52 am Hello, dear collectors!
I'm looking for some decks in the picture below. I have been looking for them for many years, but I have no information about them and have never seen anyone sell them. So I think perhaps someone here would be willing to sell one of them.
I would be extremely grateful if any of you were willing to sell them to help me complete my collection. If anyone wants to sell, please contact me. Thank you!

I think I have a vague idea where it is, but have been disappointed when trying to hunt for stuff in the bowels of my cabinets and boxes

Honeybee wrote: ↑Tue Aug 19, 2025 1:05 am

I think I have a vague idea where it is, but have been disappointed when trying to hunt for stuff in the bowels of my cabinets and boxes

I find this really puzzling Bradius. I have to ask - what are you collecting them for?
Or is this who I will be in a few more years of collecting?
You have scared me into going and cataloging my recent dozen or so purchases that I have been too slack to get onto.

• D = Number of decks owned
• E = Excitability upon seeing another limited edition deck
• S = Square footage of storage space
• L = Likelihood they remember where anything actually is
• M = Number of unopened mailers still sitting by the door
• n = Number of weeks those mailers have been ignored

Honeybee wrote: ↑Tue Aug 19, 2025 1:28 am The sheep deck is Ian Cumpstey's Commoners No.5
I don't think you could have been looking for them for many years as they were only a 20/21 release
12mths ago Ian had a kickstarter to do a new edition of them but it did not receive the small funding goal of about $4k

The owl looks like a James Coffee deck. Butterfly Magic Store has a couple of orange ones

Have you even googled some of the ones with titles on the tuck?
If you don't find them there then try

https://www.portfolio52.com/

kevork wrote: ↑Tue Aug 19, 2025 1:44 am
Collectors are not bound by logic,

zlexander wrote: ↑Tue Aug 19, 2025 7:57 am Sent an email

zuer wrote: ↑Mon Aug 18, 2025 7:46 pm Just a simple inquiry out of a glimmer of hope, do you still sell them now

Bradius1 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 19, 2025 2:20 pm Mantra deck! That was it. I have two of the Mantra Adhyaatmika - Signature Edition decks, which was limited to 100. The white signature edition was limited to 10, and I don't have any of that edition. Good luck finding one of those.

Bradius1 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 20, 2025 1:11 am I would not be opposed to selling my second one. The main problem is finding them. I can try to look through one area and see if it is there. Unfortunately, I suspect it is boxed up in storage, in which case I will probably not find it until I go through and organize that storage area, which will not happen in the short term.