Current Location: In storage
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Valentine card
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Publisher:
Dobbs, Henry
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Description
Hand-coloured design of flowers at the centre and around the border on embossed white wove paper (backing sheet missing) 4to-size with gold leaf detailing of embossing and border flowers. The paper has a hand-coloured edge of dark blue. A hand-written verse in black ink above and below the central image: "Yet once again I fain would prove ...". Embossed stamp at lower centre: "DOBBS PATENT". Uses same embossed design as other Dobbs Patent cards; P.14385-R, P.14410-R-8, P.14392-R, P.14410-R-12 and P.14414-R-23. A clipping from a sale catalogue is affixed to the album leaf: "581 - Another, 4to single sheet and equally early and fine, 4to, fine state, 182- 15s 6d ...". The clipping is from catalogue No. 34, dated 1923-4 of the bookseller, R.S. Frampton who was based at "Walton House", 37 Fonthill Road, Finsbury Park, London, N4. See Valentinesarchive12. Valentinesarchive13 is a duplicate catalogue with all pages intact which is useful for cross-referencing. Four of Frampton's catalogues were found in boxes containing Glaisher's valentines. Other cards by Henry Dobbs in the Glaisher albums seem to have been bought in the same sale. See P.14410-R-14 (was lot 577), P.14414-R-23 (was lot 580) and P.14414-R-64 (was lot 578). This card was included in the exhibition of valentine cards, _For ever thine: the nineteenth century valentine_, held in the Charrington Print Room at the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1995, no. 21. A graphite number "21" is written onto the album leaf in the lower right-hand corner, which corresponds to the numbering of the catalogue.
Legal notes
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
