Very Much Loved and Very Charming c. 1920s Language Learning Picture Cards blue and white china and executed in dark green

and executed in dark green ink on rice paper

and coastal waters

dried beef and hominy

5 1/2 x 3 7/8 paper

giving the whole thing a wonderfully moody feel

Very Much Loved and Very Charming c. 1920s Language Learning Picture Cards blue and white china and executed in dark greenI don't know who produced these and can't find another set out there, but the excellent graphics on them remind me somewhat of old Teulia Fortune Telling Cards from the early 1920s, of which I've had a few decks, and I'd bet these date to about then. And someone(s) certainly loved them expanding their vocabulary in four directions, with English, French, Spanish and Italian words for the pictured object around the perimeter of each card. A couple show