Rare c. 1880s Palmer Cox Brownies Matching Game Cards (Partial Set) toy top Stains/toning as evident

Stains/toning as evident

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Easy to hang straight from one nail on the wall

handmade paper cover that makes it feel rather as if it might contain the secrets to the universe

Rare c. 1880s Palmer Cox Brownies Matching Game Cards (Partial Set) toy top Stains/toning as evidentThese 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