"Birthday Souveigner" 1891, Charming Little Homemade Booklet of Drawings and Verses mini playing cards including perhaps as expressing the

including perhaps as expressing the sentiments of the baby

with flagged corners and fold lines here and there and general wear

3rd quarter 19th c

The larger of the two measures 6" long x 3 5/8" tall x 5/8" deep

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"Birthday Souveigner" 1891, Charming Little Homemade Booklet of Drawings and Verses mini playing cards including perhaps as expressing theJust the sort of find that makes my day, a little homemade drawing booklet dated Aug. 27, 1891, and titled "Birthday Souveigner" in watercolor on the cover, though our birthday girl did not sign her name. Two kittens in their hat, another in a shoe, and a little dog named Jack sitting behind Maggie looking like a very loyal companion. Plus a basket of fruit, a seated woman in hat ("Fashionable Press," a bit like Anna Wintour sitting in the front row),