Current Location: In storage
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Valentine card
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Publisher:
S. Marks & Sons
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Description
Changeable Valentine. A hand-coloured lithograph on white wove paper with a cut-out figure of a woman with a pleasant expression wearing a crinoline and bonnet out of doors. The cut-out lifts to reveal the same figure without her outdoor clothes and a second head and hands attached to her back. This face has a snarling expression and the hands are poised to strike. Printed below: S. Marks & Sons / Houndsditch, London; (215). A printed verse below: "You are a nice girl, when you are out, / But when your (sic) at home you quarrel and shout, / And I have heard you are fond of your drop, / That you get round the corner at the Gin shop, / Oh no, you never can be wife of mine, / I'm frightened too much of those nails of thine." The inside pages are blank. At lower left, a small label with a blue border and "103" written in black ink inside (probably a lot number). A handwritten inscription in black ink at lower left: "21 / G[...]" (probably relating to price). From a series of 15 Valentines with figures which lift to reveal their true characters which were bought at a sale, lot 590. See clipping from sale catalogue pasted to the album leaf below P.14345-R-54: "Coloured Changeable Valentines of the 60's, pubd. by Marks, etc. ..." This group of valentines was bought in 1923-24 from the bookseller, R.S. Frampton who was based at "Walton House", 37 Fonthill Road, Finsbury Park, London, N4. A Frampton sale catalogue from this date (No. 34) found in boxes containing Glaisher's valentines has lot 590 cut out from it. See P.14527-R. This fact can be verified by cross-referencing with an identical but complete book catalogue found among Glaisher's valentines, with the listing for lot 590 intact. See P.14528-R.
Legal notes
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
