Rare c. 1880s Palmer Cox Brownies Matching Game Cards (Partial Set) wooden captains 18 3/4" l x 8

18 3/4" l x 8 3/16" t

The thumb press is surrounded by a sort of gray canvas material that is still both pliable and completely sound without holes or cracks

I'll never get over the beauty of inky black painted lettering against a field of creamy white paint

I didn't realize quite how great this box was until I went to pack up a whole bunch of odds and ends of a variety of shapes and sizes---they all  wound up fitting neatly and safely inside of it

so might treat it as a political poster to hang

Rare c. 1880s Palmer Cox Brownies Matching Game Cards (Partial Set) wooden captains 18 3/4" l x 8These 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