Baraja Cultura Española
ASESCOIN pack for 2022 designed by M.A. Corella featuring famous Spaniards and notable buildings.
By depicting a different cultural celebrity at each end of every court card and three more on the Jokers, the artist Miguel A. Corella has managed to include 27 famous Spaniards from the fields of art, architecture, literature and music. These branches of culture are further celebrated on the 4s. Famous buildings can be found on the aces (double-ended) and 2s (single-ended). All the subjects are named. The pips consist of two shades of red or black (barely visible on the black suits). On the back there is a reference to Velázquez’ “Infanta Margarita Teresa in a Blue Dress” and also to Don Quixote by Cervantes. This was a numbered edition of 500 packs.
Above: Baraja Cultura Española printed by Liceo Gráfico, Armilla, for ASESCOIN, Spain, 2022. 52 cards + 3 Jokers + 1 title card in tuck box. Size: 63.5 x 88 mm. © ASESCOIN 2022
ASESCOIN stands for the Asociación Española de Coleccionismo e Investigación del Naipe (the Spanish association of playing-card collectors). In 2022, their annual meeting was held in Madrid.
By Roddy Somerville
Member since May 31, 2022
Roddy started collecting stamps on his 8th birthday. In 1977 he joined the newly formed playing-card department at Stanley Gibbons in London before setting up his own business in Edinburgh four years later. His collecting interests include playing cards, postcards, stamps (especially playing cards on stamps) and sugar wrappers. He is a Past President of the Scottish Philatelic Society, a former Chairman of the IPCS, a Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards and Curator of the WCMPC’s collection of playing cards. He lives near Toulouse in France.
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