Rare c. 1880s Palmer Cox Brownies Matching Game Cards (Partial Set) wooden captains so might treat it as

so might treat it as a political poster to hang

A little dirty

which I love about it but looks like it could be flaked off

I didn't realize quite how great this box was until I went to pack up a whole bunch of odds and ends of a variety of shapes and sizes---they all  wound up fitting neatly and safely inside of it

(There is a stray hair not a flaw in a few of the photos

Rare c. 1880s Palmer Cox Brownies Matching Game Cards (Partial Set) wooden captains so might treat it asThese 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