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Mechanical Valentines
lithographed and hand-coloured card, by Dean & Son, with pull tag mechanism causing an elegant man to raise his eyeglass to his eye, the verse reads You impudent puppy who at the girls stare,/With your eyeglass, pin, Albert and Pegs,/And then, lisping out with a dandidied air,/Haw-Demme! nice girl and fine legs - 8½ X 5½in. 22 X 14cm., circa 1850-1860; a chromolithographic mechanical card in the shape of a rose bouquet, the pull tag causing the roses to rise to reveall hidden verses including Let this messenger remind you; a pair of hand-coloured lithographed cards with printed verses, by Fielding & Co, showing a fashionable young lady with her dog, one deliberating a gate post, the other showing her stuck in the gate post revealing her petticoat, verse reads Tiney my dear, I fear its no go,/My dress is entangled I find;/Good gracious! dear me! I fix'd on the post, and a gentleman's coming behind - 7¼ X 4½in. 18 X 12cm., circa 1859; and another mechanical card (5)
lithographed and hand-coloured card, by Dean & Son, with pull tag mechanism causing an elegant man to raise his eyeglass to his eye, the verse reads You impudent puppy who at the girls stare,/With your eyeglass, pin, Albert and Pegs,/And then, lisping out with a dandidied air,/Haw-Demme! nice girl and fine legs - 8½ X 5½in. 22 X 14cm., circa 1850-1860; a chromolithographic mechanical card in the shape of a rose bouquet, the pull tag causing the roses to rise to reveall hidden verses including Let this messenger remind you; a pair of hand-coloured lithographed cards with printed verses, by Fielding & Co, showing a fashionable young lady with her dog, one deliberating a gate post, the other showing her stuck in the gate post revealing her petticoat, verse reads Tiney my dear, I fear its no go,/My dress is entangled I find;/Good gracious! dear me! I fix'd on the post, and a gentleman's coming behind - 7¼ X 4½in. 18 X 12cm., circa 1859; and another mechanical card (5)