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VICTORIAN VALENTINE
An elaborately embossed and pierced paperlace valentine card, the gauze centre applied with an oval paperlace garland, framing a hand-coloured lithograph of an amorous couple against a hand-coloured lithographed country scene, the card opening to reveal a hand-coloured garland of flowers and a long hand-written poem, 10 x 8in., c. 1840-60.
An elaborately embossed and pierced paperlace valentine card, the gauze centre applied with an oval paperlace garland, framing a hand-coloured lithograph of an amorous couple against a hand-coloured lithographed country scene, the card opening to reveal a hand-coloured garland of flowers and a long hand-written poem, 10 x 8in., c. 1840-60.