Early Victorian Etched and Hand-colored Calling Cards - Set of 6 vintage boyscout one of thirteen children of

one of thirteen children of sharecropper parents who went on to acquire their own farm

Though this postcard is British

Some paint loss and I believe one plunderer is missing a sword

This is a complete double nines set in near mint condition

Early Victorian Etched and Hand-colored Calling Cards - Set of 6 vintage boyscout one of thirteen children ofI 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