Now this may seem to have nothing to do with music but stick with me, because the oldest musical instrument ever found in the entire world is a flute made from a bone just like this. And this story gets even odder, because if you look at a list of the eight oldest musical instruments in the world, five of them are flutes, made from mammoth, or bear, or even swan and vulture bones, from France, Germany, Eastern Europe, and even China.
However all of these have holes in them, which I believe must be a later development, the first attempts surely being just blowing through a hollow bone they picked up in the field or at the back of the cave, and then, perhaps, finding a broken and holed one that made a different noise, which led them to experiment with manufacturing these holes in other bones. And that means that the un-holed bones, the true earliest musical instruments have been lost to time, mistaken for just bones on the floor, discarded.
This card is one of a lengthy set which eventually covered six series each of twenty-seven cards. In addition, our set, the first set, could be collected in (a) matt format, or (b) glossy format.