Rare, Curious Victorian Parts of a Cat Card Game - 51 Cards signed Clare Leighton print with light wear to the

with light wear to the lacquer and minor surface cracking

head slightly turned and arms positioned at the top of voluminous skirt

like this terrific vintage Modernist/Brutalist cast bronze brooch

an eagle I think

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Rare, Curious Victorian Parts of a Cat Card Game - 51 Cards signed Clare Leighton print with light wear to theWonderfully strange! I have searched and searched and found no others like these out there, which I am sure are Victorian era, and I might think fairly early at that. I have to think these were part of a card game, perhaps a bit like rummy, where one would draw and discard, seeking to amass a complete cat! A few lucky cards combine two parts head + tail, or a pair of front or hind paws rather than just one and there are a couple of blank ones too.