B. Braun-Dexon^®

Atraumatic needles are not the most obvious subject for a pack of playing cards! However, the needles’ tips, when viewed from above, exhibit distinctive shapes which have been used here for the pips alongside the more traditional ones. All is explained on the extra card where the name of the maker (Naipes Comas) also appears.

Each set of courts represents a different profession linked in some way to B. Braun-Dexon’s products and has a distinctive colour: doctors – green (S); salespeople – olive-green (D); pharmacologists – pale turquoise (C); the Red Cross – turquoise (H). A surgeon is shown on the Joker in black and white along with examples of the four non-standard suit-signs. One curious feature (which this reviewer can’t explain) is that the 10s to 2s are all followed by a slash (/) and a ‘0’. On the reverse, the name of the company, B. Braun-Dexon, is repeated many times in diagonal lines against a grey background.

Above: pack promoting B. Braun-Dexon’s atraumatic needles made by Naipes Comas, Barcelona, Spain, 1986. 52 cards + 2 (identical) Jokers + 1 extra card in tuck box. Size: 63 x 88 mm.

The back design is reproduced on the back of the box.

Reference

Fournier Museum Catalogue, Vol. IV, Spain 1288.