Ping Pong" in Fairyland IV: A Happy Birthday – Historic Reproduction
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic image captures Ping Pong" in Fairyland IV: A Happy Birthday in remarkable detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. A fine choice for anyone who loves history, and a gift that gets noticed. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.
Ping Pong" in Fairyland IV: A Happy Birthday
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Few subjects in this gallery pair a modern pastime with fairy folk as directly as this one, where table tennis, the parlor craze of the early 1900s, becomes a game for winged figures. The "IV" in the title suggests it belongs to a series, and the birthday in the subtitle adds a festive, domestic note. Fairy pictures of this era often turned a child's imagination into gentle social comedy, and this one is worth a look for how it folds a fashionable new indoor game into that older tradition of tiny beings at play.
| Original scan | 951 × 620 px |
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| Reference | Fairies & Elves (65) |
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