Antique King of Heart Card Porcelain Box, Transfer with Hand-painting china trade ship painting Sandpiper: 3 1/2” t x

Sandpiper: 3 1/2” t x 4” l (tail to beak) x 2 1/4 w (base)

but the key is still with the box

with the plaster/chalkware cracked in several places and otherwise well worn

where he has written in big letters: PLEASE Do Not Put in Water

representing characters from black life as she saw it in her town

Antique King of Heart Card Porcelain Box, Transfer with Hand-painting china trade ship painting Sandpiper: 3 1/2” t xYou know I love antique and unusual playing cards, and this would be a perfect box to store a deck in. I believe it dates to the second half of the 19th century I have found a c. 1880 British sterling vesta with matching enameled king that feels very akin to it, and indeed that seems right for the (no indice) King card pictured. Blue transfer, with the rest of the color appearing hand painted, and with gold striping around the sides, corresponding to