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Published July 09, 2016 Updated May 02, 2022

Playing Cards designed by Alvaros

Playing Cards designed by Alvaros, published by Eduardo Carrión, Montevideo, 2000

2000 Uruguay Eduardo Carrión Alvaros Art & Design Cartoon Add to Collection

Non-standard Uruguayan playing cards featuring medieval caricatures designed by Alvaros with advertising backs for Copri Correo Privado, 2000.

Playing Cards designed by Alvaros, published by Eduardo Carrión, Montevideo, 2000 Playing Cards designed by Alvaros, published by Eduardo Carrión, Montevideo, 2000 Playing Cards designed by Alvaros, published by Eduardo Carrión, Montevideo, 2000 Alvaros, designer

Above: playing cards published by Eduardo Carrión, designed by Alvaros, Montevideo, 2000. 48 cards + 2 jokers in velvet bag.  See more deisgns by Eduardo Carrión

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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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