Souvenir Playing Cards
Argentina publishes many tourist souvenir packs, usually with colour pictures on each card, and with either Spanish suit signs, or else Anglo-american ones, in each corner.
SOUVENIR
PLAYING CARDS
Argentina publishes many tourist souvenir packs, usually with colour pictures on each card, and with either Spanish suit signs, or else Anglo-american ones, in each corner. Many were published by Gráfica S.A. in Buenos Aires - click image below - and show that Argentina has more to offer than just somewhere to photograph yourself standing in front of your car!
Left: Dirección Nacional de Turismo 'Antartida Turistas' pack, made by Cia. General Fabril Financiera S.A., Buenos Aires, 1970s.
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Below: Naipes Eróticos, a different type of 'souvenir' pack made in Argentina by an anonymous manufacturer, 1990s. There are miniature catalan-style Spanish suited playing cards in the corners, and a full colour pin-up photo of young ladies wearing very few clothes on each card. |
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See also: Argentina Homepage • Souvenir Playing Cards • Historic Boston Souvenir Playing Cards • New Zealand Pictorial Playing Cards • Panama Canal Souvenir Playing Cards • Vistas de Lima Souvenir Playing Cards • Vistas del Perú Souvenir Playing Cards • Peru Souvenir Playing Cards • Peru Rail Souvenir Playing Cards • Swiss Scenic Aces Souvenir Playing Cards • World's Fair Souvenir • Souvenir packs for King Christian of Denmark • Vic Joc de Cartes, 1990 • Fenno Products, Peru • Naipe Ciudad de Quito, Ecuador • Ecuador Turistico Souvenir • Argentina Souvenir Cards • Spanish Republic Souvenir • Málaga Souvenir Playing Cards • Galapagos Islands Souvenir • Cook Islands Souvenir
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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