Souvenir Playing Cards
Argentina publishes many tourist souvenir packs, usually with colour pictures on each card, and with either Spanish suit signs, or else Anglo-american ones, in each corner.
SOUVENIR
PLAYING CARDS
Argentina publishes many tourist souvenir packs, usually with colour pictures on each card, and with either Spanish suit signs, or else Anglo-american ones, in each corner. Many were published by Gráfica S.A. in Buenos Aires - click image below - and show that Argentina has more to offer than just somewhere to photograph yourself standing in front of your car!
Left: Dirección Nacional de Turismo 'Antartida Turistas' pack, made by Cia. General Fabril Financiera S.A., Buenos Aires, 1970s.
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Below: Naipes Eróticos, a different type of 'souvenir' pack made in Argentina by an anonymous manufacturer, 1990s. There are miniature catalan-style Spanish suited playing cards in the corners, and a full colour pin-up photo of young ladies wearing very few clothes on each card. |
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See also: Argentina Homepage • Souvenir Playing Cards • Historic Boston Souvenir Playing Cards • New Zealand Pictorial Playing Cards • Panama Canal Souvenir Playing Cards • Vistas de Lima Souvenir Playing Cards • Vistas del Perú Souvenir Playing Cards • Peru Souvenir Playing Cards • Peru Rail Souvenir Playing Cards • Swiss Scenic Aces Souvenir Playing Cards • World's Fair Souvenir • Souvenir packs for King Christian of Denmark • Vic Joc de Cartes, 1990 • Fenno Products, Peru • Naipe Ciudad de Quito, Ecuador • Ecuador Turistico Souvenir • Argentina Souvenir Cards • Spanish Republic Souvenir • Málaga Souvenir Playing Cards • Galapagos Islands Souvenir • Cook Islands Souvenir
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