Menorca Souvenir by Savir S.A.
Menorca Souvenir by Savir S.A., Barcelona, c.1980.
Souvenir of Menorca by Savir S.A., Barcelona, c.1980. During the late 1970s and 1980s Savir published a series of tourist souvenir packs, in both French and Spanish-suited versions, for a number of popular resorts including Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza, Toledo, Costa Blanca, Salou and Madrid.


Above: Menorca Souvenir by Savir S.A., Barcelona, c.1980. 52 cards + 2 jokers + Canasta scoring table + Poker scoring table. Images courtesy Matt Probert.



By Matt Probert
Member since March 02, 2012
View ArticlesI have adored playing cards since before I was seven years old, and was brought up on packs of Waddington's No 1. As a child I was fascinated by the pictures of the court cards.
Over the next fifty years I was seduced by the artwork in Piatnik's packs and became a collector of playing cards.
Seeking more information about various unidentified packs I discovered the World of Playing Cards website and became an enthusiastic contributor researching and documenting different packs of cards.
I describe my self as a playing card archaeologist, using detective work to identify and date obscure packs of cards discovered in old houses, flea markets and car boot sales.