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A quantity of articles on Valentine's Day and Valentine Cards, including 'Valentines & Their Makers', published by The Sketch, on February 15th, 1893; 'Old Valentines', published by The Sketch, February 14th, 1894; 'Vanishing Valentines', by W.G. Fitzgerald for The Strand, 1895; 'The Paper Valentine', by Mrs. Willoughby Hodgson for The Connoisseur, January 1929; 'New Ways with Old Valentines', by Anne Blythe for The Lady, 14th March 1946; 'A Cautionary Valentine', published by the Lilliput Magazine, February 1947; 'A History of Valentines', by G. Bernard Hughes, published by The Antique Dealer and Collectors Guide, February 1947; 'The Fragrance Lingers', published by the Picture Post, 17 February 1951; together with newspaper clippings refering to sales and 3 newspaper adverts for Shell, specifically aimed at St. Valentine's Day, for example 'My Valentine -- my Basic need/O fly away with me!/My heart is full/If not my tank/To journey far with thee/White as your skin/The petrol's in/(of lips I may not tell)/So on the move!/And let me prove -- /you can be sure of SHELL';and the music for a song 'When Thou Art Near', published as a 'Musical Valentine', by Alphonse Bertini.
A quantity of articles on Valentine's Day and Valentine Cards, including 'Valentines & Their Makers', published by The Sketch, on February 15th, 1893; 'Old Valentines', published by The Sketch, February 14th, 1894; 'Vanishing Valentines', by W.G. Fitzgerald for The Strand, 1895; 'The Paper Valentine', by Mrs. Willoughby Hodgson for The Connoisseur, January 1929; 'New Ways with Old Valentines', by Anne Blythe for The Lady, 14th March 1946; 'A Cautionary Valentine', published by the Lilliput Magazine, February 1947; 'A History of Valentines', by G. Bernard Hughes, published by The Antique Dealer and Collectors Guide, February 1947; 'The Fragrance Lingers', published by the Picture Post, 17 February 1951; together with newspaper clippings refering to sales and 3 newspaper adverts for Shell, specifically aimed at St. Valentine's Day, for example 'My Valentine -- my Basic need/O fly away with me!/My heart is full/If not my tank/To journey far with thee/White as your skin/The petrol's in/(of lips I may not tell)/So on the move!/And let me prove -- /you can be sure of SHELL';and the music for a song 'When Thou Art Near', published as a 'Musical Valentine', by Alphonse Bertini.