Valentine card
Category
Ephemera
Date
Unknown
Materials
Paper
Measurements
138 x 99 mm
Order this imageCollection
Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 748095
Summary
Greetings Card - Valentine right opening. Front: White embossed with pierced lace design of flowers and leaves and a central oval cutaway. Silver fern leaf with two red roses and a central purple flower scrap highlights the bottom of the cutaway and to the top a single dark pink rose with leaves to each side. the oval cutaway is obscured by a mesh onto which is glued a blue ird with an envelope and two raise pink and grey hearts. Verse: Inside on the right page the verse in blue on a gold edged scroll design, which can be seen from the front through the gauze. 'Pair as a beautious lender flower, Turwalled thou art Queen. Say with thou share the lot of one, what was thee thus unseen.' Text: Handwritten in black ink on the back 'hunter dear that happy spat wear first I sand forget me not'.