Vintage, Heraclio Fournier Spanish RED deck card – VITORIA – No. 12 F – 40 cards

Vintage, Heraclio Fournier Spanish RED deck card – VITORIA – No. 12 F – 40 cards

Spain 1910s

40 deck cards - NEW - newer used -

Size: 9.5 cm x 6 cm

Heraclio Fournier Gonzalez, the youngest son of French-Spanish industrialist Lazaro Fournier and Paula González, went to work with his brother Braulio Fournier in the family’s factory. Their business, called Fournier Hermanos, developed a new type of playing card.
After splitting from the company, Heraclio moved to Vitoria-Gasteiz and in 1870 created a lithography factory called “Naipes Heraclio Fournier” focusing on playing card manufacturing, and later printing stamps and books.

In 1875 Heraclio created new printing ways and new graphic models.Two years later he worked with a Spanish art teacher called Emilio Soubrier and a painter called Diaz de Olano to design a new brand of playing cards. That was going to be the first brand of his famous Spanish playing cards. In 1880 he changed his work place to a bigger one in Fueros street.

In 1916 Heraclio Fournier died in Vichy. He had no male descendants and because of that his grandson Félix Alfaro Fournier became the owner of the company.

In 1948 Naipes Heraclio Fournier company was the best playing card manufacturer in Spain. In 1986 the company United States Playing Card company bought Naipes Heraclio Fournier.