‘The Monkey' playing cards by M.C. de Casabó Ltda, c.1950

‘The Monkey’ poker playing cards manufactured by M.C. de CASABÓ Ltda, Avda Gral Rondeau 1602, Montevideo, c.1950. Casabó also produced Naipes Tatú, Naipes Bambú, American and Naipes Jaque.

The ace of hearts has the blue 25 centésimo tax stamp which was applied to cards manufactured in Uruguay. The court cards are a curious idiosyncratic design and the indices are in a smaller font size than in the numeral cards. In this edition the court cards have not all been turned so that the suit symbol is at the left-hand side which would make it easier to fan the cards in the hand. In later editions the courts are all turned. Two new joker designs have been added. The box gives the company name as M. C. de Casabó Ltda, and the address as Av. Gral Rondeau, 1602 (Montevideo) and a telephone number. At some time after this the name changed to M. C. de Casabó S.A. and the address to Cuareim 1885 (Montevideo) with the same telephone number.