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May I Become the Proud Bird Who Shall Accompany You?


Escort Card
Fair Lady: May I become the proud bird who shall accompany you to your leafy bower, or must I suffer the misery of seeing you borne away in triumph by the individual whose chromo tintype appears at the right.
"Gaze on this picture, then on that."--Hamlet.
A Victorian-era acquaintance card with amusingly convoluted language. These cards--also called escort, flirtation, or invitation cards--provided a humorous way for a young man to make the acquaintance of a young woman. See below for additional examples.








Fair Lady: May I become the proud bird who shall accompany you to your leafy bower, or must I suffer the misery of seeing you borne away in triumph by the individual whose chromo tintype appears at the right.
"Gaze on this picture, then on that."--Hamlet.
A Victorian-era acquaintance card with amusingly convoluted language. These cards--also called escort, flirtation, or invitation cards--provided a humorous way for a young man to make the acquaintance of a young woman. See below for additional examples.








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Alan Mays club has replied to arts enthusiastCheck out, for instance, "Funny Flirtation Cards," a short story by Frank Bellew that appeared in Harper's Young People: An Illustrated Weekly, Jan. 4, 1881, p. 160. Charley Sparks is the "sunshiny young fellow" in the story who's described as the kind of boy who usually has "something new in the way of a puzzle, or a riddle, or a notion of some sort wherewith to amuse his friends." Although Charlie's cards are homemade and somewhat different than the usual acquaintance cards (the illustrations accompanying the article make them look like printed cards, however), I'd imagine that young gents of the time used printed acquaintance cards in a manner similar to the way Charlie does in the story.
For another perspective, see the Encyclopedia of Ephemera's entry on acquaintance cards.
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