Cartes à Jouer Espagnoles
Cartes à Jouer Espagnoles Héron - Catalan pattern.
A French playing card manufacturer’s version of the standard Spanish Catalan pattern by Héron c.1990.
Above: Cartes à Jouer Espagnoles - Catalan pattern, Héron S.A. c.1990
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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