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GEORGE C. WHITNEY COMPANY
An embossed paperlace valentine card with applied hand-coloured and gilded details, with a hand-coloured lithographed centre entitled 'The Hymeneal Arms', depicting a shield with various items of domesticity crowned by a lighted candle, the motto reads 'Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before Them', 7¼ x 5in., 1860-70; with its original embossed envelope, stamp marked Whitney 3 Worcester, addressed to 'Miss Jessie S. Conin, 214 Ross St., Brooklyn, New York', post marked 'Brooklyn. Feb 16. 10 A.M., N.Y'.
An embossed paperlace valentine card with applied hand-coloured and gilded details, with a hand-coloured lithographed centre entitled 'The Hymeneal Arms', depicting a shield with various items of domesticity crowned by a lighted candle, the motto reads 'Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before Them', 7¼ x 5in., 1860-70; with its original embossed envelope, stamp marked Whitney 3 Worcester, addressed to 'Miss Jessie S. Conin, 214 Ross St., Brooklyn, New York', post marked 'Brooklyn. Feb 16. 10 A.M., N.Y'.