1908 Oversized Matching Card Game with Great Graphics New Mexican pottery perfectly irregular

perfectly irregular

though I doubt intentional

Certainly they bear a very strong resemblance to the animals of Swiss toy designer and maker Antonio Vitali (who also designed many toys produced by Creative Playthings)

he created an index of its pages

watercolor and ink of watercolor paper

1908 Oversized Matching Card Game with Great Graphics New Mexican pottery perfectly irregularI haven't been able to figure out the maker of these cards, or to find another set out there, but at the top of the Department Store (featured on three of them) is the year 1908, I assume the year of their making. I think the images of balls and tops and animals and trains, etc., are great, and love the way they are divided in half, with the other two images from each set of three pictured below the center line. I assume this was to be played pretty