Barbour's Irish Flax Thread Hand-reading Victorian Era Trade Card angular mug Overall size is 14" x

Overall size is 14" x 17"

it's in pretty good shape

and on the lower right appears to be a signature in red--a rarity among pith paintings as I understand it

I really love the form

Barbour's Irish Flax Thread Hand-reading Victorian Era Trade Card angular mug Overall size is 14" xHow could I resist a trade card that also delivered fortunes based on the shape of one's hand?! I think it's really great looking on the front with this fan formed by hands and shells on the corners, and then on the back we learn that the "spatulate hand" indicates an often tyrannical disposition, while pointy hands mean love of beauty (though excessive imagination!) and then all sorts of details about square hands including reading of the lines of