C. 1850 Hand-colored Queen of Clubs Transformation Card folk carvings with gold also used for

with gold also used for the reeds and grasses at her feet

which I believe is an edition # of sorts

My eye doesn't mind that loss at all

3 7/8" across at lip

clinical looking dark green box with silvery white print and one initial--"F" for face in this case

C. 1850 Hand-colored Queen of Clubs Transformation Card folk carvings with gold also used forI believe this queen of clubs was part of a transformation card deck, c. 1850s often the royal cards in these decks just featured figures, while it was the pips of the numbered cards that were transformed incorporated into images. What I find especially intruiging is that her arms, though I presume actually intended to read as crossed, appear to me as if cut off at the elbows and left as stumps, which thus makes her veil read all the more as if tears