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History of Playing Cards in Argentina
The cards were introduced to the Americas by Spanish explorers after colonization. Although there is no concrete evidence that was so.
For Argentina the cards were from the Virreinato del Peru and were introduced by Chile. Are recorded input data cards from 1550.
The Indians quickly became addicted to card games, this is confirmed by some old decks made ​​and found in Patagonia Argentina. He recorded only two Indians decks. The most important is enuenctra in the museum Francisco P. Moreno de San Carlos de Bariloche (Rio Negro).
Part of another specimen found (only 15 cards) belonged to the Indians Tehuelches (inhabitants of Patagonia). The cards made of leather measure 87.8 mm long and 54.9 wide, the thickness of 0.48 mm, and in human and animal paintings.
"What stands out is that they are very well cut with a very sharp and well defined contours," says Stella Ferrarese, one of the leading experts in the country on these issues.
Apart from well seasoned and have no traces of hair, the cards have the particularity tehuelches high in fat, animal substance used for extra durability.
It is believed that the cards were similar to Spanish and followed tehuelches scale deck of 40 cards. But put your own figures, men wearing quillangos with arms high and breaks of 90 degrees to the elbows.
For the year 1650 the Royal Treasury authorized the printing of cards in Argentina that years later where prohibited, then they imported. Until the era of independent movements, the cards were printed in Spain and were brought to the colonies for sale by tobacco income and the Virreinato cards.
Among the card games that are more commonly practiced during the colonial period in particular tables in pulperaias, cafes and houses of tricks included the Baceta and Pharaoh, and the strike, which drew a letter to the "points" and one for the "banking", lansquenet (or lansquenet), similar to "paro", the "banca", which were "flowers", the first, which was played with four cards per player and the luck of winning "flux ", ie the possession of four cards in a suit.
Between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries the cards were regulated by different legal provisions (laws and decrees) that limited or forbade the use of cards, because the gamble large sums of money they used to lead to squabbles: "in consideration of the excesses of the game of cards, dice, and other luck and stake, and to join and attend this occupation pesima many people idle, restless life of depraved habits they can be, and are often the biggest drawbacks and most atrocious crimes on offense of God our Lord with oaths, blasphemies and anxieties, which disturb public tranquility and untie or break the bonds of union and tranquility of families and peoples. "
In the early days of independence authorize its manufacturing facilities in Gandarillas Jose Manual (1815) and Jose Maria Quercia and Possi (1816), who can be considered among the first argentinian card makers.-
