Rare, Curious Victorian Parts of a Cat Card Game - 51 Cards handmade case is just terrific

is just terrific

and then again 10-13 oz

and one triangle on the top rises just a tiny bit--as pictured

I do know she was a graduate of Tufts University and spent much of her life in the nearby Boston suburb of Belmont

or big heart for the hat

Rare, Curious Victorian Parts of a Cat Card Game - 51 Cards handmade case is just terrificWonderfully strange! I have searched and searched and found no others like these out there, which I am sure are Victorian era, and I might think fairly early at that. I have to think these were part of a card game, perhaps a bit like rummy, where one would draw and discard, seeking to amass a complete cat! A few lucky cards combine two parts head + tail, or a pair of front or hind paws rather than just one and there are a couple of blank ones too.