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DAVID MOSSMAN
Three embossed and pierced paperlace valentine cards, stamp marked Mossman, one with pull-tag mechanism, the hand-coloured lithographed centre depicting Cupid in a cloud, when operated, a hand appears from behind the cloud and places a ring on a womans finger, the printed verse reads 'Oh let me place on that fair hand/The mystic pledge of love/And at the Church's Altar stand/And ask of Heaven above...', another with a centre-piece consisting of fabric flowers and leaves, 7 x 4¼in., c.1860. (3)
Three embossed and pierced paperlace valentine cards, stamp marked Mossman, one with pull-tag mechanism, the hand-coloured lithographed centre depicting Cupid in a cloud, when operated, a hand appears from behind the cloud and places a ring on a womans finger, the printed verse reads 'Oh let me place on that fair hand/The mystic pledge of love/And at the Church's Altar stand/And ask of Heaven above...', another with a centre-piece consisting of fabric flowers and leaves, 7 x 4¼in., c.1860. (3)