Friday, June 29, 2018

Oh Cards

Bought: $1.12 Sold: $30.00 Fees: $4.32 Profit: $24.56

These are a set of OH cards. When I found these at VV I wasn't able to find much about them, but they looked odd and vintage and for a dollar I figured it was worth the risk. After I got home and did some research and they are actually interesting. Here is the explanation from Wikipedia:
OH Cards are a genre of special playing cards used as story–telling prompters, counseling and psychotherapeutic tools, communication enhancers, educational aids, and social interactive games. OH cards have no official or traditional interpretations of images, and instructions included with the decks encourage imaginative and personal interpretations of the images. Usually these images are small paintings created by various artists specifically for this kind of use. As a genre, OH cards are unconventional "information containers", unbound books with no set sequence of pages.
Their most common uses are as a focus for self–examination and as prompters in social interactions. They are often used as aides in psychotherapeutic settings, and in a variety of educational situations. Less commonly, OH cards are used as catalysts in artistic fields: in writing, painting, theatre, even dance.
Categorically OH Cards operate in the interface of literature, art appreciation, games and psychology. Most commonly they are used as a focus for self–examination.

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