Ingalls Vintage 1930s Fortune Telling Cards Complete Deck metal case This hand-painted Chinese jewelry box

This hand-painted Chinese jewelry box just makes me happy

and some staining to the horsehair bristles

straight down like a pendulum

I love its shape and proportions

and with quotation written vertically in pencil on the back

Ingalls Vintage 1930s Fortune Telling Cards Complete Deck metal case This hand-painted Chinese jewelry boxWhether or not indeed "The Greatest Fortune Teller in the World" as he claimed to be, Harry Ingalls of Swampscott, MA produced a pretty fabulous deck of cards! The instruction card included is both highly specific and vague, as it should be each card is packed with fortunes of all sides plus lucky numbers, wish answers and symbols, providing fodder for all manner of complex readings and predictions! Plus Harry's very serious portrait at the center of