Rare c. 1880s Palmer Cox Brownies Matching Game Cards (Partial Set) fun drawing together with a few gauges

together with a few gauges and a bit of paint here and there add up to a pretty fantastic surface

It is deeply rusted

(It also details a bunch of variations on solving it

Approximately 11" tall x 4" in diameter

or perhaps over the breakfast table in an open kitchen--somewhere

Rare c. 1880s Palmer Cox Brownies Matching Game Cards (Partial Set) fun drawing together with a few gaugesThese seem to be quite the rare cards; I have only found one reference to them out there, from a baseball card afficionado relative to the two baseball player depictions included! Certainly there is a fair amount of material out there featuring the Brownies imaginary sprites invented by Canadian author and illustrator Palmer Cox, apparently based on Celtic mythology and highland Scottish tales told to Cox by his grandmother but these I believe are