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1. Three 10”x6”, pull-downs, “Made in Germany”: child in a floral arbor (small damage), boy at an estate gate, a windmill, and five small charmers.  100.

2. Jewish New Year card / Valentine. Cart drawn by butterflies, some damage, 11”x9”.  65.

3. Pair of cards in same format: one seen as Jewish New Year card, and the other as a Valentine, Damage to the tops of the sails.  9”x9”.  125.

4. Valentines great for gifts! Eight-piece lot includes large pull-down, three smaller ones, and four open-outs with accordion tissue.  80.

5. Googly-eyed child at a clock, and ten assorted children’s cards.  50.

6. How Do I Love Thee, by Jana Emerick, and four 7”x9” pulldowns, one dated 1938, the others Hallmarks and Gibson, circa 1960.  50.

7. Three charming small pull-down die-cut chromolithographed cards, and a large one with red tissue fountain.  25.

8. Six McLoughlin-style collage cards, plus an ad and embossed lithograph.  50.

9. Six assorted die-cut chromolithograph cards include Twelvetrees and Brundage Dutch children.  50.

10. Four elaborate gilded cards: pull-down with golden lace, Whitney 3 ½, velvet and rose scrap, and an oval ball invitation.  50.

11. Six assorted octavo collage cards.  50.

12. Collection of die-cut cards: two signed Nister, one Carrington, one Bergman, and four others, small damages.  30.

13. Six seasonal gift booklets: illustrated die-cut shapes, floral, religious, and Burns poetry.  30.

14. Tuck double-sided dancing Black couple, “Swing Your Partner”, 5 ¼” x 3 ½” closed.  100

15. Mansell quarto, 8”x10”, Applied scroll with poem, and handmade rose scraps, slight lace edge damage.  90.

16. Mansell quarto, unusual embossed design, watermarked Towgood, 1851, Central hand-colored lithography of couple. Slight damaged at central fold line.  95.

17. Delicate lace valentine with hand-painted cherub and motto “LOVE”; in beautiful golden frame, ready to give and hang on the wall. 40.

18. Four elaborate layered octavos: one with gilded lace and cameo scraps, one Meek, one W 3 ½, and layered laces.  100.

19. Unique study collection of five pieces of green lace: one Wood, one with a small mirror.  75.

20. Elaborate die-cut pull-down, Easter religious decoration instead of Valentine format, with red cellophane: one flower absent at base. 11” x 5”.  50.
 

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