Naipes Casino Celuplastic
Justo Rodero produced plastic coated playing cards with the trade mark 'Celuplastic'. Apart from the different box design and four of cups, in all other respects packs were the same as their regular 'Naipes Casino' brand.
Naipes Casino Celuplastic, c.1966-68
Justo Rodero produced plastic coated playing cards with the registered trade mark 'Celuplastic'. Apart from the different box design and four of cups (shown right), in all other respects packs were the same as their regular 'Naipes Casino' and 'Naipes Habana' brands. The full 48-card packs also contained 2 Jokers.
Below & Right: cards from "Naipes Casino Celuplastic" manufactured by Justo Rodero e Hijos, Buenos Aires, c.1967. The address given on the four of cups and box is Avda Fco Beiro 3855/59, Buenos Aires. A brown 5 pesos tax band [Ley 16.656, 1965-67] is affixed outside the box, and the four of cups has the 'Marianne' internal revenues tax stamp.
Above: cards from "Naipes Casino Celuplastic" manufactured by Justo Rodero e Hijos, Buenos Aires, c.1967
The Celuplastic trade mark was continued after the abolition of tax stamps, ie after 1968, as can be seen on this later example. See the box►
Above: cards from "Naipes Casino Celuplastic" manufactured by Justo Rodero e Hijos, S.A.I.C., Av. Dorrego 611/23, Buenos Aires, c.1975-80. Image courtesy Roddy Somerville.
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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