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Valentine card
White embossed and lace-paper with gilded border and a central panel of green paper with silvered borders mounted on paper springs. A heavily embossed and varnished die-cut chromo of the head and shoulders of a young girl wearing a straw hat decorated with flowers and with real grasses set behind. Chromolithographed die-cuts of roses and other flowers affixed at lower left and right corners. A novelty open 'book' of paper with gilding is affixed at lower centre and bears a lithographed verse in blue ink: 'I send kind re/gards & hope that you may / With pleasure / remember in / future this day'. The interior is blank.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Baxter-process print
Colour printing
Accession number: P.14342-R-35
Primary reference Number: 206515
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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