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DOBBS KIDD & CO.
An embossed and pierced paperlace valentine card stamp marked Dobbs Kidd & Co., the centre applied with paper leaves and hand-coloured flowers concealing hand-written messages 'True Sympathy/Knows no exhaustion/I must ever/Love you', 7 x 4½in., watermarked 'Whatman 1857'; An embossed card inscribed 'Advise to Ladies', with a wax seal, containing an embossed and paperlace card, the centre with a pen and ink bar of music depicting a B flat, 5½ x 3½in., c. 1860. (2)
An embossed and pierced paperlace valentine card stamp marked Dobbs Kidd & Co., the centre applied with paper leaves and hand-coloured flowers concealing hand-written messages 'True Sympathy/Knows no exhaustion/I must ever/Love you', 7 x 4½in., watermarked 'Whatman 1857'; An embossed card inscribed 'Advise to Ladies', with a wax seal, containing an embossed and paperlace card, the centre with a pen and ink bar of music depicting a B flat, 5½ x 3½in., c. 1860. (2)