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This delightful valentine has an embossed chromolithographed print fixed to the front of a lace paper envelope.
On the reverse just visible between the perforations is the green perfumed sachet.
Valentines were really the innocent love-links of the humbler classes, and while they would infuse anxiety, and thought, and affection, and curiosity, and sometimes disappointment into a thousand minds - they often carried balm to a wounded heart, blessings to a happy spirit,
and woke the first blush of felicities that were to crown a life !
- Opposite
- Perfumed sachet valentine
- 183 x1 29mm (3¼ x 5in)
- circa 1870s
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