Early Victorian Etched and Hand-colored Calling Cards - Set of 6 vintage wall pocket I especially love her red

I especially love her red hair and wide hat

with one longer and narrower block meant to represent the trunk of a tree

Pieces measure 1 5/8" l x 13/16" w x 1/2" thick

original to it and not visible unless looking inside for it

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

Early Victorian Etched and Hand-colored Calling Cards - Set of 6 vintage wall pocket I especially love her redI 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