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JOSEPH MANSELL
Three embossed and paperlace valentine cards, stamp marked Mansell, all with chromolithographic and hand-coloured details, one entitled 'The Little Corrective', with a miniature birch whip attached to a string the verse reads 'May you/never deserve/it/To be applied when the patient is/troublesome', another with two gloves attached to a string, the verse reads 'If from Glove you take the G[love]/Then Glove is Love which I/to thee profess', 5¼ x 3½in., c. 1840-60. (3)
Three embossed and paperlace valentine cards, stamp marked Mansell, all with chromolithographic and hand-coloured details, one entitled 'The Little Corrective', with a miniature birch whip attached to a string the verse reads 'May you/never deserve/it/To be applied when the patient is/troublesome', another with two gloves attached to a string, the verse reads 'If from Glove you take the G[love]/Then Glove is Love which I/to thee profess', 5¼ x 3½in., c. 1840-60. (3)