Novelty Valentine Cards
VICTORIAN VALENTINE FAN
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VICTORIAN VALENTINE FAN
A chromolithographed victorian novelty valentine card in the form of a fan, with 12 compartments, the heads containing oval medallions of full-length ladies in various poses in floral frames, with roundels beneath containing a continuous verse 'To my Valentine/Dearer than all life's/Joys art thou/A treasure without eclipse/My heart beats proudly/To know I share/A love that is pure and free/To feel there is one in/The world doth spare/Full many a thought/for me/With warmest affection', surmounting elaborately gilt designs on the handles, 17in. across, 9in. high., c. 1890.
A chromolithographed victorian novelty valentine card in the form of a fan, with 12 compartments, the heads containing oval medallions of full-length ladies in various poses in floral frames, with roundels beneath containing a continuous verse 'To my Valentine/Dearer than all life's/Joys art thou/A treasure without eclipse/My heart beats proudly/To know I share/A love that is pure and free/To feel there is one in/The world doth spare/Full many a thought/for me/With warmest affection', surmounting elaborately gilt designs on the handles, 17in. across, 9in. high., c. 1890.