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DOBBS & CO.
Two valentine cards with embossed and pierced paperlace borders, one stamp marked Dobbs Kidd & Co.', the other Dobbs, one centre with hand-coloured garland of flowers forming the words 'Love', on a leaf-shaped background, the other entitled 'Dissolving View', the centre with a satin cloud covered by gauze with the faint words 'Single Blissness', the card opening to reveal a second sheet of paperlace and the words boldly hand-written in gilt 'Married Felicity', on a satin background surrounded by a large silvered laurel wreath, 7½ x 5in., c.1840-50. (2)
Two valentine cards with embossed and pierced paperlace borders, one stamp marked Dobbs Kidd & Co.', the other Dobbs, one centre with hand-coloured garland of flowers forming the words 'Love', on a leaf-shaped background, the other entitled 'Dissolving View', the centre with a satin cloud covered by gauze with the faint words 'Single Blissness', the card opening to reveal a second sheet of paperlace and the words boldly hand-written in gilt 'Married Felicity', on a satin background surrounded by a large silvered laurel wreath, 7½ x 5in., c.1840-50. (2)