This is a very rare and beautiful deck. The Daveluy Lenormand deck was produced in Bruges, Belgium c. 1860.

Lenormand originated in Germany as a card game (The Game of Hope) in the 18th century. It evolved into a 36-card oracle for divination in the 19th century. The name Lenormand comes from the famed French fortune-teller Mlle. Maria-Anne Lenormand.

While Tarot can be used for deeper reflection on one’s psyche, emotions, motives and spirituality, Lenormand is at its best with more tactical and practice aspects of life. It’s a blunt and direct system and works well for predictive readings. Each Lenormand card has a fixed/limited meaning and is meant to be read in pairs or triplets to create sentences.