Early Victorian Etched and Hand-colored Calling Cards - Set of 6 vintage wall pocket and revealing of the construction

and revealing of the construction

I especially love her red hair and wide hat

I can't help but think of him as a portrayal of righteous hypocrisy--perhaps representing a puritanical late 17th century minister crying witchcraft

But also surely all sorts of other uses for these great looking cards (including newly invented word games)

Love to all

Early Victorian Etched and Hand-colored Calling Cards - Set of 6 vintage wall pocket and revealing of the constructionI just found a small lot of these antique calling, or compliments cards, which I am really loving for their finely etched designs, bits of poetry (at turns inspirational and amusing), and for the hand coloring done by their deliverers, more carefully in some cases than it others! These are some of my favorites, including one with this brilliant bit: "it is the mind that makes the charm of travel or quiet It is the mind can ever form it's own