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Naipes Angelito

Published August 01, 2001 Updated June 12, 2023

Naipes Angelito Spanish-suited playing cards, Cía Fabril Financiera, Buenos Aires.

Argentina Cia Gral Fabril Financiera S.A. Angelito

Compañía General Fabril Financiera S.A. “Angelito”

One of several brands produced by Cía Fabril Financiera, this brand had been produced earlier by Compañía General de Fósforos, before Cía Fabril Financiera took over the playing-card production in c.1930. The designs are based on those of Comas of Barcelona (Spain) but we have no idea why the logo on the four of cups shows an angel next to a straw hut.

Naipes Angelito, Cia Fabril Financiera c.1948

Above: Naipes Angelito, Cia Fabril Financiera c.1948. See the Control Slip

Above: advert from a magazine for Naipes Angelito in which a game of cards is taking place in a wine cellar. No money is visible so it is just a friendly game. The advert says that it is more pleasurable to play with 'Angelito' cards, which are non-transparent, flexible, bright and colourful, long-lasting and cheap. The address for Cia Fabril Financiera is given as California 2020, Buenos Aires. c.1930

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Founder and editor of the World of Playing Cards since 1996. He is a former committee member of the IPCS and was graphics editor of The Playing-Card journal for many years. He has lived at various times in Chile, England and Wales and is currently living in Extremadura, Spain. Simon's first limited edition pack of playing cards was a replica of a seventeenth century traditional English pack, which he produced from woodblocks and stencils.


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