U.S. Games Systems

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U.S. Games Systems, Inc.
Founded1968 (1968)
FounderStuart R. Kaplan
Headquarters
Stamford, Connecticut
,
United States
Websitehttps://www.usgamesinc.com/

U.S. Games Systems, Inc. (USGS) is a publisher of

fortune telling decks. These are marketed through a network of retailers, including bookstores, museum gift shops, metaphysical shops, greeting card stores; toy and game stores; hobby shops, and mail order catalogs.[3]

The company started as a U.S. distributor of European tarot decks such as the

Rider-Waite Tarot deck. The deck was extremely popular and served as the basis for the company's early success.[4]

Other tarot sets published by U.S. Games include a traditional

Motherpeace tarot, and the Tarot of the Witches by Fergus Hall, which was featured in the James Bond movie Live and Let Die
.

Popular playing card games published by U.S. Games include the Wizard Card Game,

Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Women in Works of Art deck, drawn from the National Portrait Gallery in Washington.[1]

The company's logo is based on Pamela Colman Smith's drawing of The Fool tarot card

In the 1970s, the company branched out into publishing books about the history of tarot. Stuart Kaplan co-wrote with Jean Huets the four-volume Encyclopedia of Tarot, which was published over the course of two decades.

Arthur Edward Waite on the Rider-Waite deck, led him to research and co-write the biography Pamela Colman Smith: The Untold Story with Mary Katherine Greer, Elizabeth Foley O'Connor, and Melinda Boyd Parsons.[7]

The company's logo is a silhouette of

The Fool tarot card, taken from the drawing by Pamela Colman Smith for the Rider-Waite Tarot.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b Liebenson, Bess (October 1, 2000). "How a Passion for Tarot Cards Led to a Full-Time Business". The New York Times.
  2. ^ a b "Play your cards!". Greenwich News. Vol. 13, no. 49. Greenwich, Connecticut. 7 December 1995. p. B11.
  3. ^ a b "U.S. Games - About Us". Retrieved 2021-03-01.
  4. ISBN 9781572819122.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
    )
  5. ISBN 978-1848850538.[page needed
    ]
  6. ^ "Pamela Colman Smith at the Dawn of Modernism" in Retrievals by Garrett Caples (2004), Wave Books.
  7. ^ Christina Hennessy (September 13, 2018). "It was in the cards: Stamford publisher brings Pamela Colman Smith's art to the masses, again". Connecticut Post (ctpost). Retrieved March 3, 2021.
  8. ISBN 9781572819122. Pamela's Fool card, with the Fool poised at the edge of a cliff, was adopted as the USGS logo, both because the founding of the company required a leap of faith and because April 1st is the birthday of its founder, Stuart Kaplan.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
    )
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