A powder blue valentine made from a delicate and intricate lace paper.

“These pretty missive gifts and letters are commonly sent upon this occasion to and from the young people who love each other in a pleasant and innocent way.
It proves how friends and kindred may use the post-office to remind one another of their mutual claims to affection”.

• Opposite
• Lace-paper valentine
• 76 x 114mm (3 x 4½in)
• circa 1870s

• Victorian Albums
• Victorian Scraps
• Father Tuck's Complete Picture Maker

• Lace-Paper Valentines
• Comic Valentines

• Easter Frolics
• In Fairyland

• A Victorian Christmas
• A Christmas Menagerie

• The Calendar
• Reward of Merit
• The English Lotteries

• Victorian Greeting Card Publishers

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