Juncosa Film Star Playing Cards

Issuing Company: Chocolate E. Juncosa
Country of Issue: Spain
Year of Issue: 1920s
Color/B&W: Color
Number of Cards in Set:
Card Size:
Issued as insert with what product: Chocolates

Notes: Checklist Incomplete (all fronts identified, but back checklist is incomplete). Playing card style. It looks like these cards can be found with the same fronts with three different backs. One version shows the back mostly in blue, but with a white circle in the middle showing an ad for Juncosa with a steaming pot in the middle. A second version shows a drawing of a different film star on the back of every card. A third version shows a drawing of a boxer on the back instead of a film star. The fronts show colorful drawings that often show identified movie stars, but sometimes just show movie star-less designs.

For the fronts, they follow a pattern, for each playing card suit, cards 1, 10, and 12 show a comedy star, while card 11 shows a western star. Cards 2-9 do not show movie stars within the designs. For the Sunflower suit, each of the fronts from 2-12 show additional movie stars within the sunflowers on the cards. For 2-9, there is a movie star for each sunflower. As an example, card 6 shows 6 movie stars within 6 sunflowers. Sunflower cards 10-12 just show one additional movie star within one sunflower.

The cards below show the front movie star followed by the back movie star or boxer for those versions that show movie stars or boxers on the backs.



Swords

1. Joe Martin /
2. No movie star on front /
3. No movie star on front / Jack Delaney (boxer)
4. No movie star on front / Frank Duffy
5. No movie star on front / Mae Busch
6. No movie star on front /
7. No movie star on front / Renee Adoree
8. No movie star on front /
9. No movie star on front /
10. Earle Foxe / Reginald Denny
11. Hoot Gibson /
12. Monty Banks /


Wine Glasses

1. Charles Chaplin /
2. No movie star on front /
3. No movie star on front /
4. No movie star on front / Chamberlain
5. No movie star on front /
6. No movie star on front /
7. No movie star on front /
8. No movie star on front /
9. No movie star on front /
10. Syd Chaplin /
11. Harry Carey /
12. Clyde Cook /


Clubs

1. Charles Dorety /
2. No movie star on front / Harold Lloyd
3. No movie star on front /
4. No movie star on front /
5. No movie star on front /
6. No movie star on front / Corinne Griffith
7. No movie star on front /
8. No movie star on front /
9. No movie star on front /
10. Harry Langdon /
11. Tom Mix /
12. Larry Semon /


Sunflowers

1. Harold Lloyd / Jack Delaney (boxer)
2. No movie star on front (Two stars within sunflowers, including Pickford, Valentino) / Antonio Ruiz (boxer)
2. No movie star on front (Two stars within sunflowers, including Pickford, Valentino) / Tom Mix
3. No movie star on front (Three stars within sunflowers, including C. Talmadge, Charlot, N. Talmadge) /
4. No movie star on front (Four stars within sunflowers, including Larocque, P. Ruth, Swanson, MacLean) /
5. No movie star on front (Five stars within sunflowers, including Hamilton, A. Terry, Lowe, Meller, Boardman) / Fidel La Barba (boxer)
6. No movie star on front (Six stars within sunflowers, including Pringle, Fairbanks, Negri, Bennett, Barrymore, Shearer) /
7. No movie star on front (Seven stars within sunflowers, including Novak, McAvoy, Mayo Ridgeway, Boardman, Rawlinson, Messinger) /
8. No movie star on front (Eight stars within sunflowers, including Gish, Kid, Dean, Moreno, Cody, Coogan, A. Terry, Philbin) /
9. No movie star on front (Nine stars within sunflowers, including Santschi, Mayo, Walton, Kerry, Fair, Walton, Moore, Stewart, Rawlinson) /
10. Walter Hiers (Laura La Plante within sunflower) /
11. Buck Jones (Moore within sunflower) /
12. Ben Turpin (Jack Hoxie within sunflower) /


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