Printed Ephemera — 1860-1880
Card, valentine card
Side opening valentine's card of white lace paper with embossed flower decoration and central panel with applied decoration of embossed paper flower scraps. Handwritten on the panel is the message 'What have you been about not to have sent the pack of consoling powder' (written on a paper scrap) 'I have been expecting waiting wishing and long for? It will be of no use unless forwarded immediately I shall die if you delay'.
- Category:
- Printed Ephemera
- Object ID:
- 34.170/363
- Object name:
- card, valentine card
- Object type:
- Artist/Maker:
- Dobbs Kidd and Company
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- Production date:
- 1860-1880
- Material:
paper, ink
- Measurements/duration:
- H 115 mm, W 174 mm
- Part of:
- —
- On display:
- —
- Record quality:
- 80%
- Part of this object:
- —
- Owner Status & Credit:
Permanent collection
- Copyright holder:
digital image © London Museum
- Image credit:
- —
- Creative commons usage:
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