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JOSEPH MANSELL
A pierced paperlace valentine card stamp marked Mansell, with hand-coloured centre and silvered details, each corner with manuscript words 'Tender Love. Sincerity. Truth. Constancy', the oval centre containing a hand-coloured heart framed by a laurel crown and the words 'Love. Remember me with affection', lifting upwards and outwards to reveal Cupid bearing a torch, mounted, 10 x 8in., c. 1840-50.
A pierced paperlace valentine card stamp marked Mansell, with hand-coloured centre and silvered details, each corner with manuscript words 'Tender Love. Sincerity. Truth. Constancy', the oval centre containing a hand-coloured heart framed by a laurel crown and the words 'Love. Remember me with affection', lifting upwards and outwards to reveal Cupid bearing a torch, mounted, 10 x 8in., c. 1840-50.