Rare Victorian Paper Lace Valentine’s Day Card, ‘Oh Remember Me’, elaborate embossed & folded design, c. 1860

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Rare Victorian Valentine’s Day Card, of double sided triple panel form, the whole covered with elaborate ‘paper lace’ foliate patterns with gilt highlights, a central oval panel containing a colour printed & embossed flower group, the other side with a child wheeling a wheelbarrow full of flowers containing a card inscribed ‘Oh Remember Me’, the double flaps opening to reveal a paper lace framed poem printed on silk:

BE MINE

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Be mine while o’er us warm and bright,

The stars of love serenely shine

When hope is young the heart is light;

Then fondly now be mine.

 

a pink tissue background inserted behind with a scented sachet.

Embossed mark beneath flowers ‘SPRAGG’,

Circa 1860

 

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