Valentine card
Category
Ephemera
Date
Unknown
Materials
Card, satin.
Measurements
74 x 101 x 4 mm
Order this imageCollection
Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 748053
Summary
Greetings Card - Valentine padded envelope style card with lift down front scrap. Front: Picture of a boy under a tree with a lake to his proper right and a cottage to his proper left in an oval of pink flowers and blue birds and robins. The padded back is gold and cream embossed with a oblong linear border within which sits an oval holding the verse on a satin fabric. Verse: 'Oh! think of me. My love, my life, oh! think of me, When I am far away, For I have cherish'd thouhts of thee, To muse on day by day. And while I strive within my breast All sorrow to subdue, One feeling only makes me blest, It is, to know thee true. Rear : A gold and cream embossed padded pattern. Top and bottom triangular sections come together in the centre with the top last forming a circular ceil with a central bird motif.