[LAYERED PAPER VALENTINE]. Portrait with artifical jewels. [c.1890]
Portrait card, (12.5 x 16cm approx.), featuring gold and purple textured paper, printed portrait centrepiece and gilt border design, with artificial jewels and 'Thee and Thee Only' book-shaped sticker to lower gilt border; printed scene and verse inside; verso lightly rubbed showing the paper lines; gilt border expertly reinforced in places; a lovely example.
Verse inside reads:
"Just a kindly greeting
Your making eyes for meeting.
Just a word of hope and love
To speed you on your way."
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