Unboxing Ciro Marchetti's Fin de Siecle Kipper
Channel: Not Fortune's Fool
Date: 04/11/2015

In which I unbox Ciro Marchetti's new Kipper deck, the limited edition Fin de Siecle Kipper. 

This video's a bit long, sorry about that. Thanks for understanding. 

It's divided into 2 parts: the unboxing and preliminary discussion of a few cards. This covers a wide variety of subjects, from why Ciro's update from the Beidermeier German time period to the English Victorian makes so much sense to how "Seine" in German means not only His but also One's, and how that changes the way we look at a certain card, to how the great English literary personage Samuel Pepys comes into focus through another card! 

Part II is a quick review of the sources I used to understand the original 1815-1848 time period of the deck, and how that spirit informed how I took the traditional meanings forward to expand the Kipper vision to the specific qualities of Ciro's new deck. 

Tomorrow I'll be making a shorter video that focuses specifically on the extra cards and what they add to the Kipper system. 

Once again, I'm so grateful for the positive reception to the deck & its companion document. I'm also deeply grateful to Ciro, to his wife Maria, to Susanne Zitzl & to Stella Waldvogel - everyone did such a stellar job presenting Kipper to a new audience in a clear & understandable way.