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Humorous Valentines
all engraved and hand-coloured with printed verses, two mechanical cards with pull tags and four of elegant ladies with various bestial heads including a parrot, a cat a goose and a fox with verse So artfully you play your part/I wonder how you fail,/;Yet still your lovers all depart/And leave you to bewail;/Your tender heart receives these shocks,/Without one trace of care,/It strikes me you're an artful fox,/And so I must beware - 6½in. 16cm. high; an embossed paperlace valentine with hand-coloured centre and printed verse Tho' 50 summer's sun has shed/Its light upon thy brow,...I'll wed a maid for my Valentine - 5½in. 14cm. high, 1840-1870 (7)
all engraved and hand-coloured with printed verses, two mechanical cards with pull tags and four of elegant ladies with various bestial heads including a parrot, a cat a goose and a fox with verse So artfully you play your part/I wonder how you fail,/;Yet still your lovers all depart/And leave you to bewail;/Your tender heart receives these shocks,/Without one trace of care,/It strikes me you're an artful fox,/And so I must beware - 6½in. 16cm. high; an embossed paperlace valentine with hand-coloured centre and printed verse Tho' 50 summer's sun has shed/Its light upon thy brow,...I'll wed a maid for my Valentine - 5½in. 14cm. high, 1840-1870 (7)