Victorian Customisable Fishing Acquaintance Card

Vintage "acquaintance card" from the 1800s. This card can be completely personalised. High quality, custom restored Victorian era "pick up" card. According to The Encyclopaedia of Ephemera, an acquaintance card was, “A novelty variant of the American calling card of the 1870s and 1880s,” and was “used by the less formal male in approaches to the less formal female. Given also as an ‘escort card’ or ‘invitation card,’ the device commonly carried a brief message and a simple illustration... Flirtatious and fun, the acquaintance card brought levity to what otherwise might have seemed a more formal proposal. A common means of introduction, it was never taken too seriously.”