2-716-850 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

"The Greeting" on the three of spades', 1910. Transformation playing card with people drawn around the spades: a photographer points his camera at a man offering a bunch of flowers to a woman with an ostrich-feather hat. Creating playing card 'Squiggles', or 'Squiggling', in which the pips of the non-face cards were incorporated into an artistic design, was popular in the 19th century. From "The Strand Magazine, an illustrated monthly", Volume XL - July to December 1910. [George Newnes Ltd, London, 1910]