Details
Title Heads I Win--Tails You Loose.
Publisher [S.l. : s.n.]
Date [between 1840 and 1880?]
Description A man lies on his back with his arms and legs up and bottom facing towards the viewer. He wears ice skates, and the ice around him has cracked. Likening him to a coin, the sender rejects the recipient for landing with his tail up.
Notes Text: A game of chance, played with a nickel, / Suggested is by your pickle; / Head or tail! -- I'll watch and see, / If I your Valentine shall be. / The Tail is up! -- the Head is down! / Your doom is sealed, your fate is known -- / Heads lose -- Tails win-- the game is mine, / Go seek another Valentine.
Genre Caricatures and cartoons.
Comic valentines.
Subject American wit and humor.
Gambling -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Ice skating -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Courtship -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Has format TMP.objres.192.jpg
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Identifier Comic Valentines, 4.42