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Children’s Card Games (161)

February 3rd, 2012 · 2 Comments

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Captain Turtle cuts a dashing figure in this early edition of “Old Maid.”  His colleagues include Ching Chang Chung (a Chinese citizen), Billy Bat (a baseball player), 15th Amendment (a freed slave), Dicky Fop (a fashion plate), Fast Horse (a boy on a rocking horse), and Corporal March (a soldier).

The Old Maid is, atypically, androgynous:

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(Posted by Doug Skinner)

Tags: Card Games · Ephemera

2 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Lisa // Feb 3, 2012 at 12:39 pm

    These are wonderful The 15th Amendment – nice!

  • 2 Gail // Mar 14, 2012 at 10:08 pm

    very english garden….very coo coo ka choooooooo