The last time I was in Salado, a small antique-y town just North of Austin, I found the cutest little silver tray.
It’s petite, measuring 8x10, and weights in at a hefty two pounds! It looks like the type of tray on which your butler might deliver a note or a cart de visite.
Since I collect cabinet cards and cart de visite cards, a few were added to the tray.
Carte de visite is a type of small photograph developed in Paris in the 1850s. The cards are the size of a calling card (about 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches) and became enormously popular and were traded by friends and visitors. “Cardomania” spread quickly throughout Europe and to the United States. They were often filed in albums.
Take a look at a few of my visitors. They wore the fanciest dresses and hoop skirts.
This one even has pink flowers in her hair!
This was my nurse. She looks so much like my next door neighbor’s daughter!
This sweet little girl must have been a trick-or-treater. Or perhaps she came with her mother.
This little $8 tray rests perfectly on an end table in my
living room.
Hope you will stop in for visit. Don’t forget your calling card.
Please visit me at Potpourri Friday and link up!
Until next time, Honey
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