Cheeky 19th-century ‘pickup line’ calling cards
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Cheeky 19th-century ‘pickup line’ calling cards
These fantastic introduction cards were used in the United States during the 1870s and 1880s. According to Alan Mays, who collects them, they were “used by the less formal male in approaches to the less formal female.” We think of nineteenth-century courtship as being impossibly straight-laced and…