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ERNEST NISTER & OTHER POP-UP AND NOVELTY CARDS
'Love's Magnet. Hidden Just beneath this cover/Is a message from your lover', a magnet holding a heart pulls out of the cover, the printed words read 'My little lode-star you shall be/To guide and make love's pathway clear/Then all your many charms will draw/My heart still closer to you, dear', 4½ x 2¾in., c. 1900-1910; A thermometer by Ernest Nister, the temperature reading 'Bliss', 5 x 2¼in., 1880's; 'Dr. Cupid's Prescription for mending Broken Hearts. To show you how broken hearts quickly unite/This card must be folded and held to the light', manufactured by Ernest Nister, 5¼ x 4in., c. 1907; and seven other chromolithographic cards, two pop-up, one shaped as a hand holding and envelope containing a fabric rose. (10)
'Love's Magnet. Hidden Just beneath this cover/Is a message from your lover', a magnet holding a heart pulls out of the cover, the printed words read 'My little lode-star you shall be/To guide and make love's pathway clear/Then all your many charms will draw/My heart still closer to you, dear', 4½ x 2¾in., c. 1900-1910; A thermometer by Ernest Nister, the temperature reading 'Bliss', 5 x 2¼in., 1880's; 'Dr. Cupid's Prescription for mending Broken Hearts. To show you how broken hearts quickly unite/This card must be folded and held to the light', manufactured by Ernest Nister, 5¼ x 4in., c. 1907; and seven other chromolithographic cards, two pop-up, one shaped as a hand holding and envelope containing a fabric rose. (10)