细节
DOBBS & CO.
A flower-cage valentine card with an embossed border, stamp marked 'Dobbs Patent', with applied gilded details, the hand-coloured floral centre lifting to reveal two flaming hearts executed in watercolour, 10 x 8in., c. 1840's; An embossed and pierced paperlace valentine card with printed verse, the hand-coloured floral centre lifting to reveal a hand-coloured lithograph of a flaming heart pierced by an arrow, with manuscript verse 'Though the swift vessel waft thee far from home/Still thou art mine Where'er you do roam', 10 x 8in., c. 1840's. (2)
A flower-cage valentine card with an embossed border, stamp marked 'Dobbs Patent', with applied gilded details, the hand-coloured floral centre lifting to reveal two flaming hearts executed in watercolour, 10 x 8in., c. 1840's; An embossed and pierced paperlace valentine card with printed verse, the hand-coloured floral centre lifting to reveal a hand-coloured lithograph of a flaming heart pierced by an arrow, with manuscript verse 'Though the swift vessel waft thee far from home/Still thou art mine Where'er you do roam', 10 x 8in., c. 1840's. (2)