c. 1850s-60s Transformation Card, Two of Spades handthrown vessel Please specify with your order

Please specify with your order whether you prefer the red or the orange

(Another example I found  online appears to have sold for just shy of $400

very good condition with a beautiful patina and I believe quite a bit of age

And I really love the odd green one

c. 1850s-60s Transformation Card, Two of Spades handthrown vessel Please specify with your orderThis c. 1850s 60s transformation card looks very much as if hand drawn in ink, but I think must be printed, because I've found documentation of a few decks out there produced by Maclure, McDonald and Macgregor, Manchester, England, that feature it. Incorporating the pips on playing cards into characters and scenarios, transformation cards first emerged in the very early 1800s in Europe, as the standard form for playing cards had become fixed, and