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Valentine card
Publisher: Sulman, Benjamin
A sachet valentine/Christmas card crossover with mechanical flower. An ornate sachet with embossed and gilt, lace-paper and central oval-shaped, gilt-framed panel decorated with a flower scrap with a mechanically operated convolvulus at the centre. When a paper rod is pulled upwards, the convolvulus is raised to reveal a printed greeting: 'A / Merry Christmas / and / a happy New Year'. A cut-paper chromolithographed butterfly is pasted to the verso of the convolvulus. A hand-written inscription in graphite is located on the album leaf to the right of P.14417-R-51: 'B. Sulman / 40 City Rd. / London E.C.'. The inscription presumably transcribes the maker's name from the verso, which was noted prior to mounting. The hand is not that of Glaisher.
Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
Circa
1870
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Circa
1880
Accession number: P.14417-R-51
Primary reference Number: 215280
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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