Cincinnati Game Co Complete Flags Card Game, c. 1900 angels singing It opens smoothly and closes

It opens smoothly and closes tight

There is a little wear to the metallic glaze and a few white scuffs on the black

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and this piece announces exactly that

I love how this tiny carved woman stands in what is almost the classical Venus Pudica position

Cincinnati Game Co Complete Flags Card Game, c. 1900 angels singing It opens smoothly and closesI understand that these cards were originally patented by the Fireside Game Co. in 1896 to commemorate the first modern Olympic Games held that year. In 1900, Fireside changed its name to The Cincinnati Game Co, which appears on this deck, which I believe date to around that year. I really love the look of them, and certainly they provide a history lesson relative to the appearance of world flags at the end of the 19th century and colonies held at