Antique King of Heart Card Porcelain Box, Transfer with Hand-painting china trade ship painting dark green painted (now very

dark green painted (now very crusty) leather

South Hadley

representing characters from black life as she saw it in her town

are annotated in pencil on the flip sides with various amounts of bets

Antique King of Heart Card Porcelain Box, Transfer with Hand-painting china trade ship painting dark green painted (now veryYou know I love antique and unusual playing cards, and this would be a perfect box to store a deck in. I believe it dates to the second half of the 19th century I have found a c. 1880 British sterling vesta with matching enameled king that feels very akin to it, and indeed that seems right for the (no indice) King card pictured. Blue transfer, with the rest of the color appearing hand painted, and with gold striping around the sides, corresponding to