c. 1850s-60s Transformation Card, Two of Spades iron hanger skill and patience can enable

skill and patience can enable

When I first saw one of these antique French leather doll bodies--to which a bisque head and arms would be attached--I thought it was am extraordinarily constructed

I'm thinking this very sweet cigar box on wheels might have been made by a parent or grandparent long ago as part of a traveling circus set

a bit like the illumination of knowledge itself

I found these together in a box

c. 1850s-60s Transformation Card, Two of Spades iron hanger skill and patience can enableThis c. 1850s 60s transformation card looks very much as if hand drawn in ink, but I think must be printed, because I've found documentation of a few decks out there produced by Maclure, McDonald and Macgregor, Manchester, England, that feature it. Incorporating the pips on playing cards into characters and scenarios, transformation cards first emerged in the very early 1800s in Europe, as the standard form for playing cards had become fixed, and