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'''Calling Card''' may refer to:
[[Image:callingcard.JPG|thumb|250px|A modern-day calling (or 'visiting') card.]]


* [[Visiting card]], was used socially to signify a visit made to a house if the occupant were absent; or as an introduction for oneself
'''Calling Card''' may refer to various object of the same name:
*[[Business card]], evolved from this sort of calling card

* [[Calling card (crime)]], a signature token or characteristic of a crime used by a serial criminal
* Historically, a calling card was used socially to signify a visit made to a house if the occupant were absent; or as an introduction for oneself (to new neighbours as an example). In this sense they are also known as ''[[Visiting card|visiting cards]]''.

[[Business card|Business cards]] are evolved from this sort of calling card.
* [[calling card (crime)]] a signature token or characteristic of a crime used by a serial criminal to taunt [[police]], or to gain notoriety.
* [[Telephone card]]
* [[Telephone card]]
* An [[advertising|advert]], stuck to a [[telephone booth|phone boxes]] to advertise the services of a [[call girl]]. Also known as a ''[[tart card]]''.
* [[Tart card]], an ad stuck to a phone box to advertise the services of a call girl


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Revision as of 00:31, 4 August 2006

Calling Card may refer to:

  • Visiting card, was used socially to signify a visit made to a house if the occupant were absent; or as an introduction for oneself
  • Business card, evolved from this sort of calling card
  • Calling card (crime), a signature token or characteristic of a crime used by a serial criminal
  • Telephone card
  • Tart card, an ad stuck to a phone box to advertise the services of a call girl