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Grupo Editorial RAF S.A.

Published November 04, 2011 Updated May 20, 2022

Grupo Editorial RAF S.A. de C.V. (founded 1962) has branches throughout Mexico.

Mexico Editorial RAF
detail from Mexican playing cards printed by Grupo Editorial RAF S.A.

Grupo Editorial RAF S.A.

Grupo Editorial RAF S.A. de C.V. (founded 1962) has branches throughout Mexico and specialises in didactic and commercial printing. The didactic department produces maps, wall charts and posters, calendars, office stationery, school text books and colouring books, dictionaries, collector cards, stickers, post cards, board games and playing cards. Visit their website here.

These Mexican-style playing cards are based on the Spanish Castilian designs first published by Naipes Heraclio Fournier (Vitoria, Spain) in the 1880s and which have become the basis of a large majority of Spanish-suited Mexican playing cards. The Ace of Coins has a Mexican flag.

Mexican Spanish-suited playing cards printed by Grupo Editorial RAF S.A.

Above: Mexican-style, Spanish-suited 'Intransparente' playing cards printed in Mexico by Grupo Editorial RAF S.A. 40 cards. The cards are designed with a green background to each card.

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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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