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Children’s Card Games (58)

May 7th, 2009 · 2 Comments

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Ah, the Old Maid returns: here she is in a nicely rendered “Peter Pan Card Game” from the Whitman Publishing Company.  Again, I’ve selected the painter from the deck, since I always wonder if the anonymous artist has slipped in a self-portrait.

And here’s the Old Maid.

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(Posted by Doug Skinner)

Tags: Card Games · Ephemera

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  • 1 Gail // May 28, 2009 at 9:11 pm

    what a giggle she has…………
    I think she really was married before and disposed of her husband. The artist is a very wild Hollywood tomboy who studied in Monmarte, Paris while Gene Kelley danced around………maybe it was the actual artist.

  • 2 TR Marlatt // Nov 23, 2009 at 5:25 pm

    This is the best Old Maid rendering that I know of. My grandmother had this set, and it often proved to be difficult to keep a straight face when one had the misfortune of selecting the Old Maid.