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DOBBS BAILEY & CO.
A valentine card by 'Dobbs, Bailey & Co.' with an embossed pierced paperlace border framing a gauze centre with superimposed decoration, the centre piece depicting hand-coloured leaves and fruit in a basket of real feathers entwined with gilded details, flanked by two pierced paperlace doves resting on hand-coloured flowers and leaves, crowned by three hand-coloured cherubs heads with silver gilded wings, and above a garland of satin leaves and paper flowers, opening to reveal an embossed and pierced paperlace second sheet, the centre decorated with a hand-coloured garland of flowers with the verse written in a semi-circle around the garland 'May guardian Angels hover o'er thee, Through paths of brightness joy and love, May sweetest flowers on earth surround thee, With rich blessings from above', c. 1850, 9½ x 7¾in.
A valentine card by 'Dobbs, Bailey & Co.' with an embossed pierced paperlace border framing a gauze centre with superimposed decoration, the centre piece depicting hand-coloured leaves and fruit in a basket of real feathers entwined with gilded details, flanked by two pierced paperlace doves resting on hand-coloured flowers and leaves, crowned by three hand-coloured cherubs heads with silver gilded wings, and above a garland of satin leaves and paper flowers, opening to reveal an embossed and pierced paperlace second sheet, the centre decorated with a hand-coloured garland of flowers with the verse written in a semi-circle around the garland 'May guardian Angels hover o'er thee, Through paths of brightness joy and love, May sweetest flowers on earth surround thee, With rich blessings from above', c. 1850, 9½ x 7¾in.