C. 1850 Hand-colored Queen of Clubs Transformation Card folk art carved Abe lincoln Aside from the missing edge

Aside from the missing edge of the roof on one side

which made for a good handle and a good way to hang it

I find them all quite charming and happiness inducing

which can be positioned in any number of ways and is different from every angle

C. 1850 Hand-colored Queen of Clubs Transformation Card folk art carved Abe lincoln Aside from the missing edgeI believe this queen of clubs was part of a transformation card deck, c. 1850s often the royal cards in these decks just featured figures, while it was the pips of the numbered cards that were transformed incorporated into images. What I find especially intruiging is that her arms, though I presume actually intended to read as crossed, appear to me as if cut off at the elbows and left as stumps, which thus makes her veil read all the more as if tears