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3 Valentines Depict Popular Culture of the 1930s--Roller Skating, Scottie, Telephones & a Crooners
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Price: $25.00
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Top left is a blonde girl with pigtails dialing the phone looking for a ring. Top right is a girl roller skating carrying a special message. Her Scottie dog is at her feet. Below a boy croons with a large microphone. . He has a big yellow bow tie with red hearts. The verse reads, ? I?m not SINATRA I?m not BING but for you Valentine I sure can SING.? The final is the timeless teen on the phone. Condition: excellent. Pencil inscriptions on reverse.
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Elaborate Lace Pattern of Garden Scene with Birds Nesting Garden
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Price: $22.00
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A single fold valentine with an embossed lace paper cover with yellow background sheet. The intricate lace depicts a gate with climbing roses. At center, two birds sitting by there nest watch their nest. Green and purple wafers under the lace. Reverse has pencil inscription and red ?W?. Light toning on edge.
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Lace Paper w Silk at Center, Silver Love Birds and Bows - Watercolor Applied Flowers; Stampless Cover
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Price: $225.00
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Elegant quarto with delicate lace paper border of decorative elements. Open center backed with silk and applied silver embossed scrap lovebirds. Silver ribbons at the side. Applied watercolor flowers at top and bottom of silk center. Marked Mansell. Postally used stampless cover with embossed fruit and flowers. Inside is blank Few areas of light discoloration.
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Wood Lace Paper with Printed Silk Poem ”Young Lover’s Dream.”
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Price: $30.00
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A single fold valentine with lace paper cover. The lace depicts a village scene, with farm animals and villagers in foreground with a bridge, windmill, church and more in the background. A forest above. Of additional interest is the printed silk verse at center, “Young Lover’s Dream. I dreamt! alas, ‘Twas but a dream! That nought our loves could sever, That you were what you ever seem Whene’er we meet together. I woke! my anxious heart has fears - I found myself alone, Yet still these words rung in mine ears, My Love-my life-my own! Inside blank. Light surface wear. Minimal scrapbook residue on reverse.
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Mechanical Sailor Boy With Binoculars - "I'm on the Lookout" - Lifts to Reveal his ?Mate?
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Price: $16.00
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A die-cut fold-out mechanical of what at first glance appears to be a sailor boy looking through binoculars. However when the card is lifted it reveals a blond girl behind the binoculars, looking down and spying the sailor. The verse reads, "I'm on the Lookout" Let Me State - To Try and Sign You on as ?Mate.? Lower right corner made is U.S.A. Reverse has pencil inscription. Condition: excellent.
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Love Should Assert his Sway For Ever - Cupid, Bride & Flaming Heart in Suitor's Dream
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Price: $200.00
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Single-fold hand colored lithograph valentine depicting a smitten gentleman lying on a knoll while dreaming of his beloved. Cupid leads his presumed intended to an altar with flaming hearts. Rhyming verse begins "Reclining on a roseate knoll,... Love should assert his sway forever. Fine vibrant color. Inside is blank. Light scrapbook residue on reverse.
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Elaborate Lace Paper with Dandy Playing Mandolin and Woman with Fan Looks On - Garden Scene
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Price: $30.00
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A single fold valentine with elaborate gold enhanced lace paper. The lace paper is designed in vignettes with a woman holding a fan at left and a gentleman playing a mandolin at right. Decorative elements include winged Cupids with drawn bow, fish and floral garlands. The lace is backed with three (3) wafers; pink at left and green at right; the center wafer is a printed scene. It depicts a boy peeking out from trees watching a young girl pick flowers. An applied verse at top reads, “Constant is my love for thee.” Foxing on back page. Light wear.
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Art Nouveau Influenced Valentine Gift Book, “Heartiest Good Wishes.”
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Price: $30.00
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An 8 pp booklet with embossed heavy stock covers. Art Nouveau Influenced cover design with poppies and flowing greenery. An applied die-cut at center of girl while seated among the giant violets. An anonymous rhyming valentine verse within. In-text and full page color illustrations of a young girl harvesting violets and later holly. Also includes scene of cats and kitten playing London Bridges --most unusual for a book of this nature. Condition: s excellent.
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Valentine With Applied Scrap Center of Colorful Flowers
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Price: $40.00
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A single fold embossed valentine with an applied scrap depicting an array of spring flowers. A small floral scrap that reads, “Truthful.” Condition: small area of discoloration upper left. Scrapbook residue and pencil inscription on reverse.
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Interlocked Rose Chain Hearts With Love Poems, 1893
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Price: $20.00
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A card stock valentine depicting interlocks rose chains in the shape of hearts. The top heart reads, “Love with chains of roses bound Fast my heart when lo! I found. The other heart reads, “That ’twas bound unto thine own could be greater grace have shown?” Marked Copyright 1893 L. Prang & Co. Boston USA. Surface wear upper right margin.
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Lang Process - Lace Paper with Winged Cherubs, Hearts, and Doves
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Price: $45.00
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A single fold valentine with a lace paper cover. The intricate lace pattern is comprised of hearts, flowers, cherubs and birds. Two wafers; a green beneath the roses and a blue beneath two doves. The inside reveals pink tissue with an applied verse. Age toning on reverse.
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Fine Lace Paper Valentine with Light Stepping Gent Hand Colored Lithograph
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Price: $125.00
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A single-fold valentine with fine lace paper cover. A hand colored lithograph at center depicts a light stepping or dancing gent in a garden. It is captioned “Who can behold thee dearest, and not love”. Inside blank. No maker noted. Also includes embossed envelop addressed to Lizzie Bassett, Worcester, Mass. Condition: small corner chip upper left. Overall excellent. c1850.
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“A Token of Sincere Regard” Scrap w Silver Sailing Vessel and Winged Cherub
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Price: $45.00
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A single fold valentine with silver enhanced embossed lace paper. The center depicts a sailing ship above a small scrap floral garland. Above the ship is a small sentiment, “A Token of Sincere Regard”. Floating above is a winged cherub. Inside is blank. Scrapbook residue on reverse.
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Tiny Girl Standing Atop of Lush Green Leaves with Floral Accent
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Price: $25.00
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A single fold embossed valentine with applied scraps of a small girl holding her brimmed sun hat. She is standing atop lush green leaves which has tiny daises in the center. Verse read,”I have Waited Long for Thee.” Inside blank. Scrapbook residue on reverse. Front and back pages stuck together at top. The envelope has pen inscriptions with front and back toning
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4 Valentines Depicting Love, Hope, Friendship, Health
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Price: $25.00
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Four single fold valentines with embossed lace paper covers and applied hinged lace paper. All late Victorian with early Art Nouveau influence. Sentiments include “Health.” , “Be My Love.” ,”My Dove.” “Flame of Love.” One envelope included. Images include a flower fairy, an Irish chap playing the clarinet, a chapel and a pretty young lady. Nice representation of the period. Condition: overall excellent. Some scrapbook residue on reverse.
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Mansell - Intricate Pattern Lace Cover with Verse, “My Hope” on Vibrant Paper with Geometric Design
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Price: $20.00
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A single fold valentine with intricate embossed lace paper cover. A horn of flowers at center surrounded by symmetrical decorative devices. Tucked in the card is a die cut page in vibrant geometric pattern and a verse, “My Hope”. Overall excellent. Scrapbook residue on reverse.
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Fine Embossed Paper Garden Scene with Gentleman Proposing plus Watercolor Flower Vignette
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Price: $45.00
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A bottom-fold embossed paper valentine.depicting a garden scene, with a man on bended knee before his intended. A theorem-like floral watercolor vignette at right adorned with handcolored scrap at top and polished paper joined hearts captioned in gold, reading “United”. Blank inside. Condition: excellent.
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Vibrant Teal Background with Mandolin, Tambourine, Dutch Girl and Flowers
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Price: $16.00
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A single fold valentine with lace paper cover with hinged second lace paper. An array of applied scraps include a Dutch girl in traditional costume, musical instruments including a mandolin atop a tambourine surrounded by flowers. Applied printed verse within. Condition: small area of discoloration hinged lace paper lower right.
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Heavy Card Stock Valentine Greeting by Marcus Ward
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Price: $16.00
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A heavy card stock greeting depicting a note card surrounded by flowers. It reads, “Sweetheart, but say you love me, And I’m content; or may I take for answer that silence gives consent”? Front marked Marcus Ward & Co. Some age toning on reverse.
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Lace Paper with Center Opening Window Revealing a Pretty Young Girl
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Price: $45.00
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A single fold, die cut valentine with embossed cover and hinged lace paper. Lace front has a small colonial boy and several other scraps. Red wafer beneath base. The center of the lace opens to depict a pretty young girl with dark hair. Applied verse within reads, “I am your friend, and now with this I wish to send A loving kiss.” Reverse stamped NEV Co. 10. Condition: top point missing on lace. Toning on reverse.
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