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Bear and for-bear, - Oh my! Valentine card
Publisher: S. Marks & Sons
Changeable Valentine. A hand-coloured lithograph on white wove paper with a cut-out figure of a man with moustashios and wearing a long brown coat and top hat. The cut-out lifts to reveal a dancing bear. Entitled below: BEAR AND FOR-BEAR, - OH MY! A printed verse below: "My friend you're rather stout to be, / A fitting valentine for me, / Through life I own I'd hardly care, / To lead about a dancing bear." The inside pages are blank. 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 appears to have been bought in 1924 from the bookseller, R.S. Frampton who was based at "Walton House", 37 Fonthill Road, Finsbury Park, London, N4. The bookseller's catalogue (No. 36), with several lot descriptions cut from it, was found in boxes containing Glaisher's valentines. 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. 86.
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.14387-R
Primary reference Number: 214552
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
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Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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