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    The document summarizes an unusual game from 1919 that used cardboard hand templates to teach palmistry. The game came with instruction booklets and five cardboard hand 'charts' that could be assembled for each player. It discusses some biblical references related to palmistry found in the game and notes the treatment of the subject is oversimplified.

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    The document summarizes an unusual game from 1919 that used cardboard hand templates to teach palmistry. The game came with instruction booklets and five cardboard hand 'charts' that could be assembled for each player. It discusses some biblical references related to palmistry found in the game and notes the treatment of the subject is oversimplified.

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    This is a rather rare 'game' based on the principles of cheiromancy. The ideas advanced by the game's creator is not entirely orthodox, but in any case, it has some unusual insights and attributes. The art work is vintage post WW1 for those who like that sort of thing. Hopefully, those interested in palmistry will also find it enjoyable. - Kerberos516950

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    The document summarizes an unusual game from 1919 that used cardboard hand templates to teach palmistry. The game came with instruction booklets and five cardboard hand 'charts' that could be assembled for each player. It discusses some biblical references related to palmistry found in the game and notes the treatment of the subject is oversimplified.

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    PsychologyOfTheHand Lindsay1919

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    The document summarizes an unusual game from 1919 that used cardboard hand templates to teach palmistry. The game came with instruction booklets and five cardboard hand 'charts' that could be assembled for each player. It discusses some biblical references related to palmistry found in the game and notes the treatment of the subject is oversimplified.

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    Psychology of the Hand, Simplified: A Wonderful and Comprehensive Language

    Resides in the Hand of Each Individual, by Gertrude Ann Lindsay, American B & B
    Novelties, Baker & Bennett Co., NY. 1919.

    This Pdf file is a scan of the 'pieces' of this unusual 'game'. It came in box (approximately 2"
    × 9" × 11") which was composed of a set of large and finely crafted cardboard constructs
    (roughly 7" × 8" to 8" × 9"). Included in the set were two small instruction booklets which
    have also been reproduced in their entirety. The large cardboard depictions of a right hand
    which were labelled as 'charts' (APOLLO CHART, JUPITER CHART, etc., describing a total
    of five different hand styles) were actually press-cut templates. These were apparently intended
    to be broken into parts for re-assembly according to the rules of the game as described in the
    booklets. In order to show the location of the score lines of the charts, both the front and the
    back of the plates were scanned and are shown herein. Each one of these five 'Charts' has a
    corresponding 'Hand' which served as a sort of game board for each player.
    There are a surprising number of interesting biblical quotations relating to cheiromancy
    which appear. Some of the assertions are novel and somewhat unorthodox. By way of
    criticism, it must be added that the treatment of the subject is rather glaringly over-simplified
    to the point of being incomplete. (For e.g., Venus and The Moon are not offered as basic 'Hand
    Types', which seems rather imbalanced to say the least. But perhaps Miss Lindsay's methods
    were intended to be applied to men only, and the Venusian and Lunar types -usually considered
    to be feminine- were accordingly omitted as somehow inappropriate. One wonders why this
    approach was adopted...). In any case, the art work has a definite charm belonging to its era.
    It can be admired as an attempt to render the subject more acceptable to the prejudices of the
    early twentieth century.

    — Kerberos 51, 2-10-011

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