Valentine card
Category
Ephemera
Date
Unknown
Materials
Paper
Measurements
120 x 79 x 2 mm
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Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 748056
Summary
Greetings Card - Valentine right opening with raised central oval cut out. Front: Lilac and white floral lace design with cut away edges to all four sides. Four 'scraps' of green ivy leafs, two to the top two to the bottom angled up to the centre. Oval cutaway relief with pink flowers and leaves to the top section and a heavier base of purple, pink, white and blue flowers at the bottom surrounding the verse glued from behind. Verse: ' Fondly I love. Fondly I live, but some strange spell, Forbids my tongue its tale to tell, Tke this simple gift and feel. The love my lips dare not reveal.' Text: Inside on the right handwritten in black ink vertically 'with love from lilly & florry to father & mamma,'.