Rare c. 1880s Palmer Cox Brownies Matching Game Cards (Partial Set) wooden captains I'll never get over the

I'll never get over the beauty of inky black painted lettering against a field of creamy white paint

(There is a stray hair not a flaw in a few of the photos

which I love about it but looks like it could be flaked off

A little dirty

4 1/2" across where handle meets brush

Rare c. 1880s Palmer Cox Brownies Matching Game Cards (Partial Set) wooden captains I'll never get over theThese seem to be quite the rare cards; I have only found one reference to them out there, from a baseball card afficionado relative to the two baseball player depictions included! Certainly there is a fair amount of material out there featuring the Brownies imaginary sprites invented by Canadian author and illustrator Palmer Cox, apparently based on Celtic mythology and highland Scottish tales told to Cox by his grandmother but these I believe are