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A hand-coloured lithographed card with an embossed border, showing a scene entitled 'Courtship', with an amorous couple in a sitting room with Cupid looking on, the printed verse reads 'How Sweet the hours of lovers are/When lip to lip doth speak/In accents mild, with downcast eyes/And blush upon the cheek', the couple flip over and the scene changes to one of 'Matrimony'showing the couple fighting and Cupid flying out of the window, the verse reads 'But when the honeymoon is past/How often Love takes wing/And nought remains of his at last/Except the wedding ring'; together with two Carte-de-Visite cards, one in the form of 'The New Magic Stereoscope', the other with a pull-tag mechanism, both change to reflect the recipient, one a cat, the other a puppy; and two other lithographed cards, c. 1860-70. (5)
A hand-coloured lithographed card with an embossed border, showing a scene entitled 'Courtship', with an amorous couple in a sitting room with Cupid looking on, the printed verse reads 'How Sweet the hours of lovers are/When lip to lip doth speak/In accents mild, with downcast eyes/And blush upon the cheek', the couple flip over and the scene changes to one of 'Matrimony'showing the couple fighting and Cupid flying out of the window, the verse reads 'But when the honeymoon is past/How often Love takes wing/And nought remains of his at last/Except the wedding ring'; together with two Carte-de-Visite cards, one in the form of 'The New Magic Stereoscope', the other with a pull-tag mechanism, both change to reflect the recipient, one a cat, the other a puppy; and two other lithographed cards, c. 1860-70. (5)