A Dreadful Bore, Excellent Victorian Trade Card for Atlantic Garden "Temperance Resort", Danielsonville, CT antique chinese rank badge This mushroom

This mushroom

Seems quite likely this was made as a love token

essentially

minor and not noticeable unless you are looking for them

With carefully  handwritten in capital letters attributions on each that I think makes them extra good--and in this case the combination of bird and lettering could really not be any better

A Dreadful Bore, Excellent Victorian Trade Card for Atlantic Garden "Temperance Resort", Danielsonville, CT antique chinese rank badge This mushroomI find the art of hand shadowing, or "shadowgraphy," a fantastic thing (and have been watching antique books illustrating it fetch high prices), so I jumped on this scarce Victorian trade card when I came across it. (Of course I also love puns.) And "Atlantic Garden" as "the only temperance amusement resort in town" is interesting too, with pool tables, shooting gallery and a first class lunch counter to boot. Danielsonville CT became Danielson in