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Joseph Mansell
all stamp marked Mansell, two rare paper doll valentines, with embossed and pierced paperlace, one with a girl, with fabric skirt, message below My darling girl/my chosen one,/I dream of you/and you alone; the other a boy, with brown fabric jacket and trousers - 3¾ X 5½in. 9½ X 14cm., circa 1860; a gilt cameo-embossed scene of a lady and gentleman walking in the country, to one side a hand-written verse Thy love unto my heart hath given/..., with hand-painted flower above - 6½ X 8in. 16 X 20cm., circa 1845; another with embossed and pierced paperlace with message Language of the Soul - 7 X 4½in. 18 X 11cm., circa 1865; and one other
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all stamp marked Mansell, two rare paper doll valentines, with embossed and pierced paperlace, one with a girl, with fabric skirt, message below My darling girl/my chosen one,/I dream of you/and you alone; the other a boy, with brown fabric jacket and trousers - 3¾ X 5½in. 9½ X 14cm., circa 1860; a gilt cameo-embossed scene of a lady and gentleman walking in the country, to one side a hand-written verse Thy love unto my heart hath given/..., with hand-painted flower above - 6½ X 8in. 16 X 20cm., circa 1845; another with embossed and pierced paperlace with message Language of the Soul - 7 X 4½in. 18 X 11cm., circa 1865; and one other
See Colour Plate 1 (5)