Vintage Acquaintance Business Card

Vintage "acquaintance card" from 1877. This card can be completely personalised with your name and all your details... Or leave the details blank and hand write your name on the front (as this vintage card was originally designed for). High quality, custom restored Victorian era illustration. 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.”