business cards, USA, 1880: typical size? typical design?

[Holger]

Wow - thank you a lot for showing me that resources, Soquili!

And pauland: yes, leaving off all that stuff is part of the retro-business-project. having only name and snail mail will decelerate our lifes.

[Soquili]

I'm very happy to have been of help, Holger.

[angelize]

Those fractal cloud brushes from the fabulous fractals tutorial can be made with sepia tones and applied with varying degrees of transparency to age your business cards.

[Soquili]

Here is a link with more images of authentic business cards of the late 1800s.
http://www.google.com/search?q=business+cards+designs+of+the+1800's&hl=e n&biw=1228&bih=578&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&sourc e=univ&sa=X&ei=7khaT7rSJ4bHtgfoiLWFDA&sqi=2&ved=0C KQBELAE#q=business+cards+designs+of+the+1800%27s&h l=en&sa=X&tbm=isch&prmd=imvns&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_p w.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=1&biw=1071&bih=502

[ankhor]

I found this one in the lot of them.
http://tinyurl.com/7copyuf
Hehe, very clever OR not so clever, I would be out of
businesscards of them very soon, without remembering
where they are (to get some more )