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My solution was to slightly edit Zellara's speech on page 11.
Change "...his thieves stole this, my Harrow deck, from me" to simply "his thieves stole a Harrow deck from me." Plus, delete "and also my sole means of support."
The speech still flows fine, emphasizes that the deck is an important heirloom, and doesn't draw attention to the deck in her hand. Everything else plays as written.
My players never questioned it, perhaps taking it for granted that a fortune teller would have a lesser-quality "backup" deck on hand. The way I understood it, Zellara's divination comes from her latent magical skill, not the deck, so it didn't matter which deck she used to find Lamm.
The only way I knew to do that was by reading this thread, so a big "thanks" to the OP for pointing it out!
We don't have the manpower to do exhaustive edits of these guys...
Darn, I'm still a year away from finishing my copyediting certification. If you haven't filled that copyeditor position by then, I'll be sure to reapply!