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Three-dimensional valentine card and box: P.14613-R

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Three-dimensional valentine card and box

Maker(s)

Publisher: Unknown

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Description

A large, boxed, quarto-size, three-dimensional valentine of silver lace-paper with a large, three-dimensional bouquet of fabric flowers including lily-of-the-valley, roses, forget me nots, purple tinsel flowers, tinsel ivy leaves attached to metal rods and a gilt tinsel seed pod. An embossed, chromolithographed scrap of roses and printed motto: 'To / my little playmate'. The interior is blank. The valentine is contained inside a large white box (one side missing) with white lace-paper around the upper inside edge.

Legal notes

Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

19th Century
Production date: circa AD 1880

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Applied textile
Chromolithography

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14613-R
Primary reference Number: 215558
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Audit data

Created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 Updated: Monday 29 May 2017 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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