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Valentine card
Publisher: Mullord Bros.
Embossed lace-paper with white and silver lace-paper frame mounted on paper springs decorated at each corner with gauze and fabric leaves and chromolithographed scraps of roses and books and white doves bearing letters. Other chromolithographed scraps affixed to the frame at centre left and right. A large embossed and chromolithgraphed bouquet of flowers at the centre with integrated flaps which lift up to reveal printed messages and mottoes relating to the 'language of flowers': "Purity" (lily of the valley); "You occupy my thoughts." (violets); "Forget-me-not" (forget-met-nots); "Thou are all that is lovely." (rose). MULLORD BROS. stamped at lower centre (viewed from verso). The inside pages are blank.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Circa
1840
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Circa
1880
Accession number: P.14411-R-75
Primary reference Number: 214705
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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