Rare c. 1880s Palmer Cox Brownies Matching Game Cards (Partial Set) fun drawing or perhaps over the breakfast

or perhaps over the breakfast table in an open kitchen--somewhere

Oil on cardboard and kind of shiny

1 5/16 x 1 7/16 x 3/4"

The complete set of 49 blocks are in great condition

It is deeply rusted

Rare c. 1880s Palmer Cox Brownies Matching Game Cards (Partial Set) fun drawing or perhaps over the breakfastThese seem to be quite the rare cards; I have only found one reference to them out there, from a baseball card afficionado relative to the two baseball player depictions included! Certainly there is a fair amount of material out there featuring the Brownies imaginary sprites invented by Canadian author and illustrator Palmer Cox, apparently based on Celtic mythology and highland Scottish tales told to Cox by his grandmother but these I believe are