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Royal Fez Moroccan      197-- Michael Hobdell      USA                                                   Art Medium: Pen drawings coloured with process colour. Description: Roland Berrill, the founder of the MENSA organization, came up with the idea of the Royal Fez tarot deck, based on a legend that tarot was a remnant of secret societies that once existed in Fez, Morocco. Sometime in the 1950s he hired artist Michael Hobdell to create the artwork which drew on the Rider-Waite imagery but to some extent locating it within a Moroccan context. Around 1970, the decks were published by Rigel Press, Ltd., and later, in the 1970s, U.S. Games and AG Mueller both published editions. The Majors are numbered but not titled while the Minors have no numbers or titles.