C. 1850 Hand-colored Queen of Clubs Transformation Card folk art carved Abe lincoln but as I'm needing to

but as I'm needing to fund an upcoming long road trip (aka buying trip)

I find them all quite charming and happiness inducing

then a thimble fits perfectly over the the top--and all fits snugly inside the tube-like case

and the handle makes a handy stand

No way could I resist this large folk art pin cushion

C. 1850 Hand-colored Queen of Clubs Transformation Card folk art carved Abe lincoln but as I'm needing toI 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