The Luck Collection was created on Victorian playing cards of animals that have traditionally been associated with luck and good fortune. Each piece has been framed and float mounted in a bespoke black ornate frame. This piece is of a rabbit. Rabbits are considered one if the luckiest of all animals. Rabbits have been a symbol of fertility and prosperity for ages. No other mammals multiply as fast as the rabbits and hares.
Rabbits were seen as a symbol of all kinds of riches multiplying themselves fast and furious.
The rabbit was also considered a lucky talisman to increase wealth.
In some parts of Northern Europe it was customary to give a child a white rabbit as a gift. The gift of the white rabbit was to ensure the child had a prosperous life…