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THREE PANELLED PERFUMED SACHET CARD
An embossed and pierced paperlace three panelled card with sachet centres, two applied on eitherside with chromolithographic floral centres, the central panel containing a printed verse on satin 'Oh! give me a lock of thy/hair/I will treasure it during/my life/Thou art beautiful, lovely/and fair/Thou art all man desires/in a wife/Then give me, I pray thee/the tress/Which I anxiously ardently covet/Each hour of my life I will/bless/I will value no treasure/above it', 7 x 4¾in., c. 1870.
An embossed and pierced paperlace three panelled card with sachet centres, two applied on eitherside with chromolithographic floral centres, the central panel containing a printed verse on satin 'Oh! give me a lock of thy/hair/I will treasure it during/my life/Thou art beautiful, lovely/and fair/Thou art all man desires/in a wife/Then give me, I pray thee/the tress/Which I anxiously ardently covet/Each hour of my life I will/bless/I will value no treasure/above it', 7 x 4¾in., c. 1870.