Rare c. 1880s Palmer Cox Brownies Matching Game Cards (Partial Set) wooden captains I'll never get over the

I'll never get over the beauty of inky black painted lettering against a field of creamy white paint

This is the second of these wonderful old push button boxing toys I've found--how to resist

20"long x 3/4" wide and deep

The thumb press is surrounded by a sort of gray canvas material that is still both pliable and completely sound without holes or cracks

A little dirty

Rare c. 1880s Palmer Cox Brownies Matching Game Cards (Partial Set) wooden captains I'll never get over theThese 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