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Antique Arcana
€39.00 EUR
🔸 Title: BANCO Playing Cards
🔸 Type: Playing card deck
🔸 Origin: France
🔸 Manufacturer: BANCO
🔸 Address on box: 58-60 rue Jean-Bleuzen, Vanves (Seine), France
🔸 Cards: 33 cards
🔸 Card size: Normal format
🔸 Packaging: Original sliding cardboard tuck box
🔸 Design:
Classic French playing card design featuring traditional court cards and suits (spades, hearts, diamonds, clubs). The deck uses a simple but elegant mid-century style typography and color palette, typical of small travel decks produced in France during the mid-20th century.
🔸 Special feature:
Ultra-compact format, designed to be easily carried in a pocket or travel bag.
🔸 Condition:
• Cards show light vintage wear consistent with age
• Original box present with visible aging and wear
• Overall very good collectible condition
Small pocket decks like this BANCO card set were extremely popular in France during the 1950s–1970s, often sold in tobacco shops, kiosks, and travel stores.
Their compact format made them perfect for train journeys, cafés, and vacations, where a full-size deck would be impractical.
Today these miniature decks have become collectible curiosities, particularly when the original box survives, as many were heavily used and rarely preserved intact.
Antique Arcana
€39.00 EUR
€39.00 EUR
€39.00 EUR
🔸 Title: BANCO Playing Cards
🔸 Type: Playing card deck
🔸 Origin: France
🔸 Manufacturer: BANCO
🔸 Address on box: 58-60 rue Jean-Bleuzen, Vanves (Seine), France
🔸 Cards: 33 cards
🔸 Card size: Normal format
🔸 Packaging: Original sliding cardboard tuck box
🔸 Design:
Classic French playing card design featuring traditional court cards and suits (spades, hearts, diamonds, clubs). The deck uses a simple but elegant mid-century style typography and color palette, typical of small travel decks produced in France during the mid-20th century.
🔸 Special feature:
Ultra-compact format, designed to be easily carried in a pocket or travel bag.
🔸 Condition:
• Cards show light vintage wear consistent with age
• Original box present with visible aging and wear
• Overall very good collectible condition
Small pocket decks like this BANCO card set were extremely popular in France during the 1950s–1970s, often sold in tobacco shops, kiosks, and travel stores.
Their compact format made them perfect for train journeys, cafés, and vacations, where a full-size deck would be impractical.
Today these miniature decks have become collectible curiosities, particularly when the original box survives, as many were heavily used and rarely preserved intact.
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