This comes as a surprise. I'd always associated the upside-down gimmick with Gustave Verbeek, who drew a series for The New York Herald during 1903-1905. Now I learn that the ever-inventive Peter Newell had done the same thing in 1893. Was there someone else before him?
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I think this sort of thing was suggested by card sets, where the face cards are the same whichever way you put them down. I have memories of seeing other types of card games with cards illustrated in the same manner.
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