The first of three funny ones from the Chicago-based Exhibit Supply Company. These types of cards were available out of arcade games, and this one is a prediction regarding the card receiver’s future love, showing a caricature of a big shot smoking a cigar, and wearing a carnation. (But a likeable looking big shot.) The “W” at the bottom stands for women, and there was another whole set for men. The card offers this possible interpretation of the future:

“You may fall in love with a big promoter who will be the Whoosis who says: – ‘If I went broke I would start all over again by going into the pretzel business. And if the pretzel business failed, I would manufacture corsets. If that failed, I would go into the hair pin manufacturing business. And if that failed, I would go into the bustle business.’ “

Vintage arcade card from the Exhibit Supply Company, Chicago, 1946.  Size:  3 and 1/4 x 5 and 5/16″

Price: $10.00