Ten of Stars, Civil War Union Playing Card (Type Two), 1863 brush with a bit of a

with a bit of a homely face

with just a bit of loss to the gold lettering at center bottom

and often spiderwebs too

" a nod I believe to Descarte's classic work of the same title

fabric and brass and foil it looks to me

Ten of Stars, Civil War Union Playing Card (Type Two), 1863 brush with a bit of aI've been thinking a lot about American history especially of late. I am currently in the middle of Ken Burns' series The American Revolution, which has had me better understanding how much the revolutionary period was as much a series of civil wars in this country as it was a war against England, and also about how inevitable The Civil War itself seems in retrospect, with tensions over slavery, and between regions, there from the very beginning.