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DOBBS, KIDD & CO.
Four embossed and pierced paperlace valentine cards, all stamp marked Dobbs, Kidd & Co., two with chromolithographic centres and two with hand-coloured centres, one a picture puzzle depicting an eye and a cut out heart, the puzzle reads 'I shall keep/my [eye]/and an [open heart] for you', another depicts a pie, the verse reads 'A Pigeon Pie/Just large enough for two/And when the pie is open'd/The birds begin to sing', the pie opens to depict two doves kissing and the words 'I love you', L. 7 x 4in., c. 1860's. (4)
Four embossed and pierced paperlace valentine cards, all stamp marked Dobbs, Kidd & Co., two with chromolithographic centres and two with hand-coloured centres, one a picture puzzle depicting an eye and a cut out heart, the puzzle reads 'I shall keep/my [eye]/and an [open heart] for you', another depicts a pie, the verse reads 'A Pigeon Pie/Just large enough for two/And when the pie is open'd/The birds begin to sing', the pie opens to depict two doves kissing and the words 'I love you', L. 7 x 4in., c. 1860's. (4)