Constant Is My Love For Thee, Early Paper Lace Valentine, Under Glass boar Otherwise all is in tact

Otherwise all is in tact

12" x 9" and in very good condition

(A perfect gift for a perpetually hungry friend

10" tall and 10 1/2" in diameter

with some crackling to the paint and a ding to the board along the left edge

Constant Is My Love For Thee, Early Paper Lace Valentine, Under Glass boar Otherwise all is in tactThe second of two of these I found together, the other listed and sold last week this one bearing the happy message "constant is my love for thee." A lovely example of one of these layered paper lace and embossed die cut valentines, or love tokens, and an early one c. 1860s 70s I believe. Detail photos give the best sense of the layering and embossing here with carefully cut colored paper in deep blue and green and brown laid under the paper lace to