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Le Fanu said:The name Ottone or Ottoni springs to mind. And that definitely sounds Italian. Ive never quite understood why this deck is called Spanish, as I don't know where the Spanish connection comes in...
A 20th century reproduction by a spanish manufacturer* of an Italian deck based on a French model... To call it 'the Spanish deck' is something of a confusing misnomer I think...
* In 1868, Heraclio Fournier, descendant of renowned master printers of Paris, established and founded a small playing card factory in Vitoria, Spain...