Standard playing cards manufactured by Joker S.A.
Standard playing cards manufactured by Joker S.A.

Standard playing cards manufactured by JOKER S.A.I.C., Buenos Aires, c.1980-present
Joker S.A.I.C. produce card games, tarot and advertising decks alongside their standard Spanish-suited and Anglo-American playing cards as shown below.
Above: the 'Joker' logo also appears on the four of cups and jokers, and the address is Chorroarín 1068, as is the case today.

Above: "Cuatro Palos" Naipes Españoles, 48 cards + 2 jokers, c.2005. The joker is a rip-off of a design by Fournier (Spain). The company logo appears on the four of cups and the 2 jokers.

By Simon Wintle
Member since February 01, 1996
View ArticlesCurator 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.