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1. The Ephemera Journal - A Valentine Source Book, published by The Ephemera Society of America, 1990, 32 pages with inserted poster.   Eight copies available at set price, out of print. $15.

2. The Valentine and Its Origins, Frank Staff, Lutterworth Press, London, 1967.  Major reference on the subject. 55.

3. History of the Christmas Card, George Buday, Spring Books, London, 1964. Fine reference book, includes Valentines. 55.

4. Two cards with little Dutch girls, BRUNDAGE designs. One is a woman in a shoe with four children, moveable, 6 ½” x 4 ½”, signed G, (GABRIEL); the other has girl with silver eating utensils, easel back, 4” x 8”, signed TUCK, dated 1909.  30.

5. McLoughlin style, unsigned. Four layered cards on embossed blanks, two pink and silver, two yellow and silver. Approx 6” x 9”, 6 ½” x 5”, and two 3 ½” x 5”. 25.

6. Two charming round, 7” Victorian keepsakes, gauze centers with applied pressed ferns, fringe border of feathers or plant material. 25.

7. Girl on donkey, head moves; large pull-down with slight damage, and pair of open-outs with honeycomb tissue fountains. 30.

8. Two proposal letters, 1856 (Leap Year), and 1858. Envelope mailed to D.N.Casey, Whiting, VT. 100.

9. Two beautiful hand calligraphy pages by George Duncan: Good Nature, and Friendship; circa 1750. 100.

10. Four pull-down cards, die-cut, chromolithographed, minimal damage, 5 ½ x 9”, 6 ½ x 7 ½, and smaller. 30.

11. Two mss. Valentines with envelopes, one dated 1849 from Dandy Jim, with envelopes. Another, printed, with cameo wafer seal, Enquire Within. 60.

12. WINDSOR lace, 3” x 4 ¾”, on the reverse: 1 ½, embellished with colored wafers and tiny mirror (cracked). Decorative envelope with wafer seal: Home Sweet Home.  60.

13. LANG’S PATENT PROCESS, BERLIN AND JONES, round wafer on reverse with printed 20; small corner damage; yellow and red wafers beneath lace, embellished with Dresdens and scraps, 3” x 5”, stamped envelope. 50.

14. Pull-down Jewish New Year card, and gilded stationery with scrap of Jewish dinner table, see #6, 2010-4. 70.

15. MANSELL Quarto, central scroll and flowers, signed, Your Valentine, Feb. 14, 1831.  #1, 2010-1. 100.

16. Memories of a childhood – ten Kate Greenaway-inspired party invitations for popular Ellen and Mary Graves, 1892.  25.

17.Ten assorted WHITNEY “school Valentines” – some assembled from kits. 15.

18. McLOUGHLIN layered octavo, two layers of fine MANSELL lace, gilded and attached with two layers of accordion springs. Center cherub head is missing. Circa 1860. 45.

19. MANSELL octavo, 5” x 7 ¾”, deeply toned, with applied envelope on front and hand-colored scraps, script messages dated 1854. And another later octavo, torn MANSELL lace and new back, a mate to #17, 2010-2. 60.

20.  MANSELL Quarto, watermarked, TOWGOOD 1850. Central design in sepia ink. Cameo in center encircled with golden Dresden, Flower scrap at bottom. Message inside, 100.

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