Valentine
Women's Suffrage, Ellen H. Clapsaddle
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Wolf & Co., 1910s. A rather charming women's suffrage-themed Valentine postcard, with artwork by Ellen H. Clapsaddle (1865-1934) depicting a baby girl wearing a bright yellow "Votes for Women" sash and the tagline "Love me, Love my Vote". Measures 5.25" by 3.5". Contemporary pencil inscription to verso: "Eva.....
Price: $150.00
Mansell, Valentine,
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.
Price: $20.00
Valentine, Love & Friendship, Courtship
1830s. Single page sheet with two cut-out and applied lithographs of gents; one appearing to be a barber. A rather odd accompaniment to the verse that reads: Good Morning valentine Ye virgins who hear; learn example from this Take care how you finally to part with a kiss Conceal for.....
Price: $225.00
Valentine's Day
United States: 1850s. An attractive Valentine featuring delicate embossed paper, yellow coloring, and a large scrap in the central oval depicting a couple on their wedding day. Also features a bright red and gold scrap depicting an arrow piercing a heart. Housed in the original lithographed envelope addressed in ink.....
Price: $110.00
mechanical valentine, die-cut valentine, victorian valentine
A die cut 4 3/4 " x 4" valentine card. This card has a policeman driving a motorcycle with a side car filled with valentines and blue forget-me-nots. He is looking over his shoulder at a smiling girl holding a letter. She also is holding a heart. The sentiment on.....
Price: $18.00
Brothers and Sisters, Siblings, Valentine, Love and Friendship
[United States]: c.1850s. A sweet Valentine from brother to sister, with hand colored wood engraving, that reads: "Sister, there's magic in thy voice, / There's thrilling love within thine eye, / To make my bounding heart rejoice, / Or soothe it with thy tender sigh. / There's an angel lent.....
Price: $150.00
Love and Friendship, Valentine, Women's History, Lace Paper
A 7" x 4 7/8" single-fold valentine with a delicately die-cut lace paper cover. A page of yellow backing paper is affixed inside the valentine with an applied forget-me-not visiting card. The lace paper depicts an elegant woman with finely die-cut and embossed petticoats and detailing on her dress. The.....
Price: $110.00
Love and Friendship, Lace Paper, Theorem
1850s. A 7" x 4 3/4" single-fold valentine with a lace paper cover. The lace paper cover has a solid center cartouche with large format leaves and flowering vine surrounding the cartouche. A hand painted lyre shaped vine and two applied hand colored flowers adorn the cartouche (in the style.....
Price: $100.00
Postcard,Valentine,Tuck,R F Outcault
A postcard valentine depicting a paper scroll with a Buster Brown like boy and his dog both with left eye winking. The boy is dressed in red, holding a freshly painted heart has paint splatter at his feet. The verse reads, “Heres a Wireless Telegram that I will Send to.....
Price: $22.00
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An embossed, die cut, fold down, 10 3/4" by 6" four tier valentine card. Once opened you can see the bright red honeycomb located under the pair of dove birds sitting on a climbing rose bush. To the left is a young girl holding a basket of flowers. In front.....
Price: $50.00
Penny Dreadful, Mechanical, Paper With a Secret
London: R. Canton. An 8" x 5" hand colored lithograph with women looking askance at a strutting gent. His head and mustache can be moved from side to side with a mechanism on the reverse. It is captioned "Tis a sort of thing a fellow can't understand, That when he.....
Price: $125.00
Original Artwork,Union Jack,Silk Mesh,Lace Paper,Feathers
England: 1860s. An attractive handmade Valentine featuring fine examples of silk mesh, hand-colored silk, floral lace paper, and real applied feathers. The hand-colored silk depicts two intertwined flags, one reading "Love and Constancy" and the other a Union Jack. Octavo-sized, measuring approx. 7.5" by 5"
Price: $110.00
Lace paper,Valentines,Embossed Victorian Scrap
England: 1850s. A particularly fine example of embossed lace paper with gilding, for use in an octavo-sized Valentine, adorned with embossed Victorian scrap. Depicts a fairy queen surrounded by flora and birds in flight, above the phrase "Queen of My Heart". The background is an elaborate series of fountains draped.....
Price: $100.00
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An 8” x 5 ½” easel back embossed die-cut valentine. Depicts a Revolutionary era gentleman on bended knee with a large package captioned ‘From Heart to Heart’. It opens to reveal a row of love birds and blue birds amidst vining roses. A small paper honeycomb at front. A verse.....
Price: $100.00
Diecut valentine, sailor
A 10 1/2" x 8" die-cut, embossed, multi- tier valentine is loaded with charm.The first tier has big pink and white flowers in a heart shape design with twolove birdsholding pinkflowers. Under this tier ispink scrap carnations with a sailor holding a heartwith a verse' To My Valentine'. The final.....
Price: $30.00
Writers, Valentine's Day, Love and Friendship
London, England: Printed for Mrs. Perks, 1814. A particularly rare Valentine Writer with hand-stenciled Cruikshank frontispiece printed in 1814. Provides sweet and amusing messages to send to your sweetheart, tailored to their profession. Includes messages for every trade from Actor, Fish-Monger, and Tallow-Chandler, to Auctioneer, Tailor, Pastry-Cook and Engraver. The.....
Price: $650.00
Comic Valentine, Occupations, Love and Friendship
1838-1842. A single-fold hand colored vinegar valentine or Penny Dreadful with embossed decorative border. It depicts a seated gentleman with a Cossack style-hat and exaggerated nose. He is holding a box of "Blackguard". It is captioned: A Snuffer I abhor? Don't say you me adore. Your presence I abhor, And.....
Price: $60.00
Love and Friendship, Poetry
1829. A single-fold 10" x 8" valentine with a handcolored lithograph image in the shape of a heart. A stately somewhat voluptuous woman amidst large rose blossoms. The verse begins " As roses other flowers excel...Twist happy Man and Wife". Inside pages blank. A crown watermark with "J & M......
Price: $300.00
Penny Dreadful, Vinegar Valentine, Social History
[1860]. An 8" x 5 1/4" color lithograph illustration of a statuesque and proper lady borders by embossed whimsical anthropomorphic heart characters surrounding the margins. It is captioned: "Stepped from a pedestal to take the air", You'd think she had, she looks so statuesque, Or ancient Heroine from who.....
Price: $125.00
Love and Friendship, Lace Paper
1850s-60s. A 4 1/2" x 7" hinged lace paper on cover only. A somewhat overly decorated lace paper tinted peach colored. There are symmetrical archways on the right and left; each with a gold embellished scrap with a man on bended knee aside a woman. Scrap applied on a purple.....
Price: $75.00
Turner and Fisher, Valentine
Philadelphia; New York: Turner & Fisher, c. 1845. Quarto. hand colored Cupid with bow and arrow rides atop a butterfly. An eight (8) line verse concludes with "And make thy life one long Love's Holiday...With a whimsical decorative border along the top invoking the spirit of playful romance for whoever.....
Price: $150.00
Hand lettered,Calligraphic flourishes,Love Poetry
United States: 1870s. A hand-lettered love poem "To Frederick", with calligraphic flourishes at the foot. Note the lettering, which mimics printed type; replicating letter forms with serifs in ink by hand is harder than it looks, and shows concerted effort. On lined blue paper measuring approx. 5.75" by 5.75" Oh.....
Price: $125.00
Chromolithography, Lace Paper, Children
1870s. A lovely chromolithographed lace paper Valentine, "To My Little Favourite", depicting a young child catching butterflies. Measures 5" by 3.5", and includes three small scraps, two of which are floral. Edges of lace paper have been colored violet.
Price: $65.00
Valentines,Lace Paper,Token of Love
United States: 1850s. An attractive duodecimo-sized Valentine on lace paper with water color rosebud and morning glory, with an applied scrap reading "Token of Love". Scrap has a tiny image of an engagement ring in the center. Measures approx. 5.75" by 3.75"
Price: $75.00