Current Location: In storage
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Valentine card
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Publisher:
S. Marks & Sons
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Description
Changeable Valentine. A hand-coloured lithograph on white wove paper with a cut-out figure of a man wearing a long evening coat, a monocle in his left eye and a top hat on the table behind. The cut-out lifts to reveal the same man in more modest attire sitting writing at a desk. A printed verse below: "Poor ragged, wretched, under paid Clerk, / How you get your fine clothes remains in the dark, / But a night you go out, togged up so fine, / It cannot be done with money of thine, ...". (211) printed below the image. The inside pages are blank. From a series of 15 Valentines with figures which lift to reveal their true characters which were bought at a sale, lot 590. See clipping from sale catalogue pasted to the album leaf below P.14345-R-54: "Coloured Changeable Valentines of the 60's, pubd. by Marks, etc. ..." This group of valentines was bought in 1923-24 from the bookseller, R.S. Frampton who was based at "Walton House", 37 Fonthill Road, Finsbury Park, London, N4. A Frampton sale catalogue from this date (No. 34) found in boxes containing Glaisher's valentines has lot 590 cut out from it. See P.14527-R. This fact can be verified by cross-referencing with an identical but complete book catalogue found among Glaisher's valentines, with the listing for lot 590 intact. See P.14528-R.
Legal notes
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
