Valentine card
Category
Ephemera
Date
Unknown
Materials
Paper
Measurements
112 x 75 x 3 mm
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Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 748060
Summary
Greetings Card - Valentine padded. Front: Gold and white embossed bordered envelope with cut away central oval for picture or message. In central cutaway a 'gnome' holding a pink rose over his proper right shoulder, wearing a red hooded cloak and blue stockings. Verse: On the back stuck over the central envelope style closing a serrated edged oval with pink spiral boder and the verse inside printed in black. ' LOVE. I love thee in the stilly night - When all is hush'd around. I think I hear they gen-tle sigh, - In every faint low sound. In the breath of flowers, - in the bright stars above. In all that's beau-tiful and pure, I see and hear thee love. Rear : The verse is surrounded by gold and white embossed border edges with a central closing.