Vintage Fun and Games

Vintage Fun and Games

KNOCKING OFF GOOSE HEADS and other children’s games Children’s games and humor were popular themes on the so called catchpenny prints or ‘centsprenten’ in Dutch. They have also been called children’s prints, ‘oortjes’ prints (in Dutch an oortje was a cent and a quarter), saints or ‘mannekesblaren’ (in Dutch: little fellows’ leaves). These cheap, sloppily colored

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