There are 2 variations of the "Composer" deck; the main difference is in the card back design. Variation #1 has the violinist in profile and the attending woman full face; variation #2 has the violinist in full face looking down and the woman in profile. Variation #2 has the Thurston Moore copyright symbol, is marked as a US printing, and in general has sharper focus and is higher in quality. -- The tuck box claims that this standard card deck features "photographs of 54 major composers," but of course for those composers who lived before the invention of photography these are photographs of paintings of major composers. The jokers are Handel and Haydn; the aces are Wagner, Gershwin, Tchaikovsky and Liszt; kings are Mozart, Beethoven, Bach and Brahms. The deck itself carries little origin information; online sources give the production era as the 1970s; produced by the Thurston Moore Country Ltd. of Tennessee.

Same deck as https://www.portfolio52.com/deck/10058/view, except with a different ordering of words on tuck.

This project introduces the sixth and seventh edition of the CHAO playing card deck series which also marks a new generation where the card back is printed and foiled, the card front is colored and the tuck box is double foiled on an extended design from the 1st generation of CHAO.

The 1st of the 2 new decks is the Emperor edition which is newly color printed on the front and bronze colored back with a layer of gold foil precisely added on top containing the CHAO pattern design.

The tuck box contains a meticulously extended design where it is embossed and double foil stamped with bronze and gold. There is a limited production of 3000 decks only on this edition.