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DOBBS & CO.
An early embossed and pierced paperlace card stamp marked Dobbs & Co., the centre applied with a gilt violin and an open song book, the tune to be played 'With tenderness but sprightly', the lyrics being 'Oh! I should like to marry/if that I could find any little/partner suited to my mind', laid down on card, 5¼ x 3½in., c. 1835/40; and four other cards, two stamp marked Dobbs, Kidd & Co., one depicting a balloon, the message reads 'An important message/by "Balloon Post", c. 1860's. (5)
An early embossed and pierced paperlace card stamp marked Dobbs & Co., the centre applied with a gilt violin and an open song book, the tune to be played 'With tenderness but sprightly', the lyrics being 'Oh! I should like to marry/if that I could find any little/partner suited to my mind', laid down on card, 5¼ x 3½in., c. 1835/40; and four other cards, two stamp marked Dobbs, Kidd & Co., one depicting a balloon, the message reads 'An important message/by "Balloon Post", c. 1860's. (5)