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Published November 08, 2010 Updated May 02, 2022

Supermercados CHIP

Supermercados CHIP playing cards manufactured in Uruguay by Compañía General de Fósforos Montevideana, 1979

1979 Latin America Uruguay Cía Gral Fósforos Montevideana Advertising Catalan Pattern Add to Collection

Supermercados CHIP playing cards, c.1979

Spanish-suited playing cards manufactured in Uruguay for the fifteenth anniversary of Supermercados CHIP, manufactured by Compañía General de Fósforos Montevideana S.A., 1979, in the typical style used in South America of the Spanish Catalan pattern.

Supermercados CHIP, c.1979
Supermercados CHIP playing cards, c.1979 Supermercados CHIP playing cards, c.1979 Box from Supermercados CHIP playing cards, c.1979

Above: Supermercados CHIP playing cards manufactured in Uruguay by Compañía General de Fósforos Montevideana, 40 cards + 2 jokers in special box, 1979. The company motif, portrayed on the four of cups, is depicted as a flame, which symbolises the company's principal product, matches. The jokers depict a fat king having emptied the contents of a huge goblet.

Right: the back of the box shows a photograph of the interior of a supermarket with rows of bottles on shelves.

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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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