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Valentine card
Publisher: Unknown
Raised' valentine with gilt lace-paper frame attached by paper springs to a card of embossed paper with shaped edges, tinted blue. A chromolithograph inserted within the frame of a boy and girl, the boy carrying a pot plant, the girl holding a letter in her left hand. A printed motto: 'Truth'. Embossed stamp at lower centre: 'W G & O D'. The inside pages are blank. A hand-written inscription in black ink on the verso: "To dear Daisy with / Perry's best love." A number "4" written in graphite on the verso. This card was included in the exhibition of valentine cards, _For ever thine: the nineteenth century valentine_, held in the Charrington Print Room at the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1995, no. 65.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
1860
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1870
Accession number: P.14358-R
Primary reference Number: 214523
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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