La Primitiva, Victoria 3179, Buenos Aires
La Primitiva, Victoria 3179, Buenos Aires c.1878-1920, manufacturers of paper and playing cards.
Fabrica de Naipes La Primitiva, manufacturers of paper and playing cards, Buenos Aires c.1878-1920.
Addresses at: Defensa 125, Moreno 248 and Victoria 3179, Bs. As.
La Primitiva was registered as a paper mill in 1878. Playing cards are known with three different addresses. Click images to see more.
Above: Piedmontese tarot cards made by La Primitiva, c.1890, based on Italian models.
Above: Piedmontese tarot cards made by La Primitiva, c.1900
Above: Cadiz type playing cards "Del No. 9" made for La Primitiva, c.1905, by Sebastian Comas y Ricart and imported from Spain.
By Simon Wintle
Member since February 01, 1996
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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