“Fair Belle” acquaintance card
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A late nineteenth-century acquaintance card with a rebus that substitutes an illustration of a bell (the kind that rings) for the word belle (an attractive woman, as in “Southern belle” or “belle of the ball”).
For another example of a rebus on an acquaintance card, see May I See You Home?
Acquaintance Card.
Fair ?.
May I have the pleasure of seeing you home this evening? If so, keep this card, if not, please return it.
☞ If I can’t see you home, may I sit on the fence and see you go by?
“Acquaintance Card” is set in Treasury Open, designed by Herman Ihlenburg and first cast by MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan in 1874.
