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Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
A 'raised' valentine composed of two layers; a lace-paper frame on die-cut silvered and embossed white coated paper with a real white cotton lace edge affixed around a central oval window and mounted with a collage of real moss and chromolithographed scraps of 'admiral' boy and coquette girl at lower centre. The frame is mounted on paper springs to a second layer of plain embossed paper. A chromolithograph of a flower bouquet is affixed at the centre of the oval window and embossed scraps of a violet flower and motto: 'Truly / thine' at upper and lower centre. The inside pages are blank. Hand-written inscription in graphite on the album leaf: '2/6' [2 shillings sixpence]. Presumably relates to an inscription found on the verso of the card.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
1840
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1880
Accession number: P.14413-R-8
Primary reference Number: 214858
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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