The standard Canasta set has been rebadged for Guinness - the rules booklet has a different cover but is the same inside (click image to zoom). Fourvel y Cía, Buenos Aires, c.1948, with a reference to ‘Canasta’ on the box.Ībove Guinness promotion Canasta set by Waddingtons, c.1951. Image courtesy Ken Lodge.Ībove 3rd grade quality Naipes Side Car manufactured by Luis A. These include table covers for Canasta games (1949),Ībove: Waddington’s “Real Canasta” custom playing cards without suit signs but no point values printed on the cards, 1952.Ībove: Canasta cards manufactured in Australia by the Valentine Group with a Mexican style Joker and value points marked on the cards. This has led to the production of custom Canasta cards, without suit signs, and ordinary decks with scores printed on the cards.Ĭustom dual decks of cards, not dissimilar to those produced for bridge, but with the same back-design and colour have also been marketed by among others the US Playing Card Company, Waddington’s, De La Rue and Piatnik.Ī number of patent applications relating to Canasta began to appear after 1949. Unusually, only two suits are recognised in Canasta - red and black, and different denominations of cards score differently. It is for this reason that manufacturers commenced adding two jokers to packs of playing cards, rather than just one, in around 1950.
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The word “Canasta” is Spanish, meaning “basket”.Ĭanasta is best played by four players forming two partnerships using two identical decks each of 52 cards plus two jokers (which are wild cards, hence they sometimes carrying the legend ‘wild’ rather than ‘joker’ in Canasta decks), totalling 108 cards. In 1949 it was introduced into the USA where it quickly became the most popular card game before being knocked off the top place by contract bridge. By 1948 it was exceedingly popular in the fashionable clubs of Argentina and from there it spread to the rest of South America.
Collecting English Playing Cards & GamesĬanasta is a card game of the Rummy family which is believed to have been invented in the old Jockey Club of Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1947.Standard and Non-standard Playing Cards.
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