 Hi everybody. So, I'm Lisa Larson and I teach to row. And in fact, I'm going to be teaching a beginning intermediate to row class in about three weeks on June 22. It's been be online via zoom. So, if you're interested, I will put the link down in the description. But the last time I taught a class, I remember looking around and looking for a flip through that compared the Pam Pamela commemorative set. And the Pam's vintage to row which I didn't find so I thought maybe I would do a flip through for you guys. So, as you see, Pam's commemorative set comes with this nice bag. I actually bought it in this full set, which comes with a book and the bag comes with a. It comes with the pictorial key to the to row. And it comes with a bag, and all of that stuff. Now, I bought this when it was very, very early. And so this was the only way to get it. But I think now you can buy it just as, as a single deck. I would tell you though, it's probably best to not buy the borderless one, because I did look at a wonderful flip through. When somebody compared this deck to the borderless one that they sell and there was something it looked like they had just, they had just taken the borders off instead of resize the cards so that the perspectives were off a little bit so wouldn't I wouldn't suggest that. But this is a beautiful deck. It's supposedly the coloring that should be the most original to Pam's original artwork and color. And in fact there's another deck called the original true I'm going to pause this for just a second and go get that deck. Okay, I'm back and just for reference. This is the original. It's called the original writer weight, and I'm not going to be doing a flip through on this one I'm going to be doing these two today but just so that you understand the difference. I'm not really fond of these too much they are, if you can see they're really glossy, which I'm not really fond of, and they have kind of a green tinge to them, everything has a green tinge to them. So I'm just, I think they were trying to go for what this deck actually is but they just didn't didn't do a good job at it. I don't know some people may really like this deck and you know that's that's fine but but just so you understand there's a difference between the commemorative deck and the original deck. So, like I say you probably can get the commemorative deck and just like a regular box like this or a tin I'm not sure, but this, this commemorative set is how I bought it. So, okay, so I'm going to be looking at that one, which I just absolutely love. And I'm also going to look at the Pam's vintage to row. And this is a deck which is it's a limited edition. This I believe is the second. This is the box to it. This is the second edition, I believe. Although I will say that I thought the second edition didn't have this little curly queue up in the corner which I really love on these. I don't know if you can see them then this one is the best to see it there it's like a little curly queue right there. But, but this is more of a a vintage look. Okay, and these like I said this is a limited edition you can only get it at a couple of little card shops online. And I absolutely love both these decks. I wanted to show the difference between the two, because both of them are meant to be as close to the original Pam coloring as possible now before we get started to I just want to let you know that both of these decks have smaller cards. They have the playing size cards, the playing size deck. So there's the difference in the size so this is just a little hand deck which and the vintage which I just love I actually use these size cards a whole lot more than I do the these decks, I don't these are still pretty stiff because I don't use them that much. And then this other deck, the this one comes also in a nice little tin. And backs are the same. A little bit, maybe a little bit brighter, but still have that nice aged feel to them but again that's a nice small hand size deck that comes in a nice little tin so just so you know that both of these decks come in in playing card size. All right, so let's get started. Let's take a quick look at these guys. So like I say this is the commemorative deck and this was made to look as close as possible to Pam's coloring. The backs are gorgeous. I absolutely love the backs of these with the rose that's on the death card and Pam signature and the cards are nice. Pretty good stock. They're not too glossy they've got kind of a matte finish but nice nice thick stock. And these cards. I am so in love with these cards, the vintage cards. This is the back. Again they have the lilies and the rose kind of a kind of a rose there. What I love about these two and I don't know if you can see this too much but this is a real linen look to it. It's got a linen, it doesn't have a sheen it's a linen feel you can feel it. The cards are nice. They're not quite as thick as these ones are, but they've got that linen feel to them which I absolutely absolutely love. So obviously one's bordered one's not, but I'm really looking at the colors now which I love and and this deck here comes with a couple of extra cards of Pam's. This one and this one, which are beautiful, which I just stick them in there and use them as extra cards if they come up and the small vintage deck comes actually with nine of those extra cards. Oops, sorry for shaking that thing. Nine extra cards. I don't, I don't have them in there right now but so just so you know but they're, they're kind of nice to, I think this is just a beautiful. I think that's a beautiful card that I can read and that's kind of nice. It's a little bit interesting with the skulls down here and the stars and the sun and look at these at yards almost they're part of it seemed like they're part of the sun but I almost kind of look at them this as yards so anyway. Okay, so flip through. We'll start going through these puppies. So you can see, let's see here. Okay. Here's the full magician. I priestess. I just love this one here. There's a little bit more of a ground under her there than there is on this one. And also you'll notice, well, when we get to the minor arcana these don't have numbers they do on the major arcana but on the major arcana they don't have the names of the cards so you see that. Okay, we have the Empress down here. We don't have that down here. The higher fount lovers, the chariot strength, no fortune, justice, hangman. Oops, where did I get those mixed up hang on death temperance devil. Here's the judgment. So in our corner and again you see that the aces don't have the, the name down here but these also don't have the numbers on the vintage duck. And she aces. And again you can see these beautiful little curly cues on this vintage duck I don't know if I accidentally got the original or not. And there are flip throughs that will show the difference between the first edition and the second edition swords. And you see both of them have the Pam's little signature down here. Next up again there we go. I just like the look. I love this it makes me feel like I'm kind of involved in the card. I'm not separate from I'm not looking at it it feels like I'm in it. Now and I wouldn't be able to tell you I'm not I'm not really versed on Pam. I'm not ABC and D so I wouldn't be able to tell you what this one is and what this one is but you know if I look I, it looks like, you know there might be a slight difference in here and now if I would say that there's some kind of difference in here at all it would be, you know maybe there's a difference between the A and the B and the C and the D, which again I am not well versed in. And there's plenty of things on YouTube where they will educate you on that. And last but not least the wands. That's another one where I kind of wonder if there's just a slight difference. If one is, you know, an ABC or D and the other one is another one. I kind of see a little bit difference in the head there. And if any of you out there are familiar with that. And you can recognize the difference between those I'd love to have you put in the comments so that I know. And there you have it, the difference between the Pam commemorative set. And the ham vintage deck. Now I will, again, just give you a slight look at here's the small vintage deck you can see that it's very similar to the hand size. But interesting I don't think the hand size one have those little curly, curly cues in the top that I was pointing out. I'm just noticing that now I'm not sure I don't think that every car has them on the on the regular deck but I'm not seeing them anywhere here so. But you know, I love, I love having a nice small deck I have small hands. Again, for the commemorative deck. There is hand size playing card size deck as well. Oh there's one of those cards. There's one of those cards that just that they just put in there. And this is actually this is interesting. I forgot about that. So this small deck here, that one, which you get in a nice 10 has an extra card I think it has two extra cards, and I can't I can't remember I didn't remember that at all. So there's an extra card like I say I will just stick those in there and and read them as an extra card. You can see they're very similar similar and look, and you know in choosing the reason I did these two decks is because in choosing these two decks. You know, you would want to choose these two decks one of these two decks, if you like that old world kind of feel and that you know something that's opposite of the radiant row you know I mean I love the radiant row. And there's some really beautiful the illuminated to row and there's some really beautiful clones out there, but you know it's just a difference in preference. And if you have a preference for this kind of old world feel, then these are the two decks that I would choose from. If you're just learning, you want to make sure that you understand that you're not going to have the names down here on the, on the cards or the numbers on the major corner, or the aces. And you won't have the numbers on the minor corner, so you know you get used to it but you do have to be aware of that because it might trip real real beginners up a little bit. And that's something that can't be overcome if you really like that look. So anyway, I wanted to let you guys know because, like I say I teach classes and I require in my classes, I teach with a writer weight Smith clone. Because I feel I'm, I'm one of those people who just feels that if you learn this deck if you learn the writer weight Smith deck, and learn it well you can go and you can use 80 to 90% of the other decks out there on the market. Because, I mean there's a reason that this one is so popular there's a reason why this one is a classic. And, you know, I just think that learning on this is is really valuable and then you can move on to other decks all the cat decks. And there's a crow deck that I got recently that's beautiful. So this is the deck that I have people get when I teach my classes, like I say I'm teaching a class, starting in three weeks from Monday, which on June 22. I will put that information in the down in the description. And I thank you for watching and go forth and have fun with your to row.