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FLOWER-CAGE VALENTINE
A hand-coloured lithographed valentine card with an embossed and pierced paperlace border, the floral centre surrounded by the printed verse 'Your pardon -- if I now offend/But this the pledge of love I send/To thee fair maid/Upon this day Saint Valentine's...', lifting to reveal two Cupids with the words 'The Pledge of Love', 10 x 8in., c. 1840.
A hand-coloured lithographed valentine card with an embossed and pierced paperlace border, the floral centre surrounded by the printed verse 'Your pardon -- if I now offend/But this the pledge of love I send/To thee fair maid/Upon this day Saint Valentine's...', lifting to reveal two Cupids with the words 'The Pledge of Love', 10 x 8in., c. 1840.