Valentine
Vinegar Valentine, Penny Dreadful, Comic Valentine, Hand colored
England: Unknown, c1870s. One printed and hand colored and one original art Penny Dreadful valentines with the same theme -- the maid is smitten with the Bobbie and he is smitten with her fare - from mutton to beer. The first, single-fold, with the maid having the upper hand atop.....
Price: $250.00
Humor,Embossed die-cut Valentine,Moveable,Hand-colored, Alamanac
England: 1850s. A charming example of "paper with a secret" in Valentine form: small embossed die-cut bifolium with hand-colored scrap on front depicting an almanac that, when lifted, reveals the rest of the message. The message reads in full: "Why are you like an Almanack? / Because you should name.....
Price: $125.00
Comic Valentine, Occupations, Love and Friendship
1850s. A single-fold hand colored vinegar valentine or Penny Dreadful. It depicts a women with exaggerated facial features and hair behind a bar pouring a pint. It is captioned: Oh, what a bob! and what a chin! What eyes! and what a nose! What charming smiles! what winning ways! What.....
Price: $50.00
valentines, raphael tuck valentine, frances brundage, honeycomb, open-out valentine, early 20th century valentine, valentines with children
An embossed, die cut, 5 3/4" x 5 3/4" fold back, 3D Valentine Card. This heart shaped card has blue forget-me-nots hearts on the outer edge. In the Middle of the card the Frances Brundage boy and girl are smiling at each other. He is peeking at the girl in.....
Price: $32.00
mechanical valentine, die-cut valentine, victorian valentine
An embossed, die cut, 5 1/2" x 3 3/4" Love Chariot. This cherub is driving a chariot through a white archway. This special chariot is made of blue forget-me-nots. The sentiment on front 'From One Who Love's You Dearly.' Inside the card on the left side, is a personal pencil.....
Price: $18.00
Love and Friendship, Poetry
American. 1860-1870. A single-fold 7 3/4" x 4 7/8" lithograph valentine printed on plain paper. Image depicts a strolling somewhat sorrowful appearing couple. Decorative floral and filigree border. The verse below reads: That arching brow and clustering hair-- That face all void of art-- The speaking glance, and modest air.....
Price: $100.00
Manuscript,Love Poetry,Valentine's Day,Pastoral
England: Mullard, 1860s. An elaborate and remarkably well-preserved octavo-sized Valentine, featuring gilt embellished lace paper, embossed Victorian scrap. This example is also notable for the extensive poem inside written in contemporary ink manuscript, beginning, "Where is another sweet as my sweet, Fair of the fair, and shy of the shy.....
Price: $125.00
mechanical valentine, die-cut valentine, victorian valentine
A die cut, fold out, 4" x 5 3/4" Cupid is riding his bike with an attached cart full of red hearts. The back bike wheel folds out to stand alone. The sentiment on the cart is 'I'm loaded down with love for you my valentine, so kind and true.'.....
Price: $22.00
Die-cut Valentine, Novelty
An 5" x 5 1/2" die cut, easel backed valentine depicting an embossed cupid skipping with pink floral garland. The heart is applied parchment with edge design of hearts and flowers. Art Nouveau Influenced design. Some edge wear; overall good condition. Reverse has pencil inscription also marked with E.
Price: $24.00
Valentine Writer, Love and Friendship, Courtship, Poetry, Advertising
[1840]. An 8" x 10 3/4" advertisement for "Cupid's Bower". Official title - Cupid' s bower, or The poetical garden of love: a collection of original valentines calculated to convey the sentiments of the heart in language neat, chaste, and expressive. It features a courting couple at center seated on.....
Price: $500.00
valentines, raphael tuck valentine, frances brundage, honeycomb, open-out valentine,
An embossed, die cut, 6 1/4" x 2 3/4" Christmas Greetings Card. This card has a Dandy on the front with decorative devises at top in silver tone. The sentiment on the card is simple 'Greetings,' inside the card is another verse 'A bright and Happy Christmas to You.' Open.....
Price: $22.00
Valentine's Day, Love and Friendship, Work's by Children
United States: 1870s-1900s. A gathering of eight (8) handmade Valentines produced between 1870 and the early 1900s. Each unique and colorful example employs cut or folded paper techniques and/or Victorian scraps. Some have short messages inscribed in ink. Together, they form a lovely representation of the practice of hand-making Valentines.....
Price: $175.00
German Tokens and Valentines
Germany: 1861. An embossed and chromolithographed token of friendship card, featuring a small leaf in the center secured with silk cord, and a small wax seal. Dated 20 February 1861, it has lines of verse in German on the front in ink manuscript, and another several lines on the verso.....
Price: $85.00
Lace paper,Ballerinas,Putti,Weeping Willow
United States: 1850s. An elaborate and remarkably well-preserved embossed lace paper colored with blue and pink, depicting ballerinas, putti, and swans underneath a canopy of weeping willow branches. Measures approx. 4.5" by 7", for octavo-sized Valentine.
Price: $85.00
rebus, valentine
A 6 1/2" x 3 1/2" embossed, die cut, easel back valentine. The girl has a pink bonnet and she hasbig eyes. In the back of the card is a slider which moves and you can change her eyes.She is walking with her chalk board. The boardhasa message 2 1.....
Price: $20.00
Coquetry,Flirtation,Valentine's Day
England: 1840s. A humorous handmade Valentine, made from two hand-colored characters cut from an etching (a barber brandishing a razor, and a man in night shirt and night cap). The manuscript inscription reads: "Good Morning valentine. Ye virgins that hear, learn [?] from this / take care how too freely.....
Price: $200.00
Valentine, Love & Friendship, Courtship, Sequins
1830. Single sheet depicts a courting couple. The women collecting a small bouquet of wheat. The oval hand colored engraving is decorated with hand stitched sequins surrounding the engraving. Reverse is blank. Measures 9" x 7 3/4"
Price: $225.00
Valentine's Day,Hand-colored lithograph
England: 1850s. Hand-colored lithographed 4to-sized bifolium Valentine (8.5" by 6.75"), with a three-stanza Valentine's Day poem underneath an image of a young couple. The couple are depicted in a drawing room, with the gentleman seated and showing his love a book with love hearts in it. The poem begins, "Faithful.....
Price: $110.00
Hand-colored Valentine, Love and Friendship
[United Kingdom]: 1840s. A particularly beautiful hand-colored Valentine with the original postmarked envelope addressed to Miss Lydia M. Wales of Upton, Massachusetts. The image depicts a beautiful young lady reading a letter in a rose garden, surrounded by verse that begins, "One look of love from those bright eyes /.....
Price: $175.00
Made by Hand, Love Token, watch Paper
A 1.75" in diameter sawtooth cut watch paper love token. A somewhat naive watercolor basked filed with roses, tulips, anemone and forget-me-nots. reverse is blank. Early 19th C little watercolor on paper watch papers were given by young women to replace the traditional printed paper often housed in a watch.....
Price: $275.00
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An embossed, die cut, 6 3/4 " x 7 1/2" heart shaped valentine. The cover is adorned with a double row of pink forget-me-not hearts bordering each of two joined hearts with printed ribbon tying them together is captioned "From Heart to Heart". The heart is pierced with an arrow.....
Price: $35.00
Lace Paper,Flora,Embossed Scrap
England: 1850s. An attractive octavo Valentine with intricately produced lace paper, depicting wild roses and lace surrounding a young couple. Opens to reveal two scraps: one embossed with two birds, and the other depicting a swan with the phrase "I am yours and thou art mine". Larger floral scrap to.....
Price: $125.00
Valentines,Lace Paper,Embossed Scrap,Flora
United States: 1850s. A circular lace paper Valentine measuring approx. 4" in diameter, made from two layers of fine lace paper woven together with dark blue silk ribbon, and decorated with embossed paper applied scraps. Features a large silver embossed scrap in the center, with the image of a white.....
Price: $85.00
Valentine,Lace Paper,Scrap,Artificial Flowers
UK: Wood, 1850s. A lavishly decorated handmade octavo Valentine made from lace paper, silk artificial flora, real sprigs of flora, and embossed scrap. The overall effect is of a lavish natural wreath surrounding a bouquet of roses and wildflowers. Measures approx. 7.25" by 5"
Price: $125.00