A Dreadful Bore, Excellent Victorian Trade Card for Atlantic Garden "Temperance Resort", Danielsonville, CT antique chinese rank badge Lorillard Company was founded in

Lorillard Company was founded in 1760 by Pierre Lorillard I

With carefully  handwritten in capital letters attributions on each that I think makes them extra good--and in this case the combination of bird and lettering could really not be any better

essentially

Seems quite likely this was made as a love token

which of course to my mind invites all sorts of imaginings about the nature of the shaking

A Dreadful Bore, Excellent Victorian Trade Card for Atlantic Garden "Temperance Resort", Danielsonville, CT antique chinese rank badge Lorillard Company was founded inI find the art of hand shadowing, or "shadowgraphy," a fantastic thing (and have been watching antique books illustrating it fetch high prices), so I jumped on this scarce Victorian trade card when I came across it. (Of course I also love puns.) And "Atlantic Garden" as "the only temperance amusement resort in town" is interesting too, with pool tables, shooting gallery and a first class lunch counter to boot. Danielsonville CT became Danielson in