Lenormand with 2 playing card inserts?

[Marina]

I came across this Lenormand deck for sale in a website. I quite like the “clean” and vintage aesthetics, but I also noticed that each card has two PCs inserts instead of one, which I had never seen before.

 

Also, the style of the pips in each insert is different, as if they came from different decks.

 

Any idea what they refer to? Have you ever seen a Lenormand like this before?

 

Thanks!

[katrinka]

That's the Spiel der Hoffnung pattern, the first Lenormand deck. It was first published in 1799 or so by Johann Kaspar Hechtel in Nuremberg.

https://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=210183
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Kaspar_Hechtel

The insets on the left have German suits, the ones on the right are French suited.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German-suited_playing_cards

[Marina]

1 hour ago, katrinka said:

That's the Spiel der Hoffnung pattern, the first Lenormand deck. It was first published in 1799 or so by Johann Kaspar Hechtel in Nuremberg.

https://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=210183
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Kaspar_Hechtel

The insets on the left have German suits, the ones on the right are French suited.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German-suited_playing_cards

Thank you so much for the information! I didn’t know about this… is there any difference on how you read with this deck, compared to the more “common” Lenormand? Or is it pretty much the same? 

[katrinka]

It's the same.
You may see some old threads here where we talk about Lenormand suits. When people say things like "Spades are growth because they're leaves", this is what they're referring to. Clubs, not spades, are the trouble suit in Lenormand because they're acorns. Nobody bothers with acorns unless they're desperate. So you can see that the German suits have carried over into the method.