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Lot 1  Whitney W 3 1/2  Embossed folder is printed in blue, 2 red wafers beneath applied lace paper, partially gilded, and mounted on paper hinges. Central opening shows die-cut of young girl carrying bundled twigs; embellished with five scraps. (4.5x6.5) Fine.   25

Lot 2 Whitney W 2 1/2 Pale blue and white folder, lace paper applied over red corner wafers, paper springs, embellished with scraps of flowers and birds. Central oval opening covered with a fine applied lace, and a die-cut of an elegant woman. Lifts to reveal green paper with tiny motto. Shows wear  (4x6.5) 15

Lot 3 Esther Howland’s New England Valentine Company, NEV Co 10 Embossed card with blue edging, applied lace with her classic paper springs and red wafers,three scraps. Interior has pasted motto. Embossed company name on reverse. (3x4) Excellent   35

Lot 4 Thoughts of Love booklet. 8 poetic pages, 4 images, tied with pink tasseled cord. Bright chromolithography, cover image of Victorian woman framed by floral heart.    Circa 1910(5x5) 15

Lot 5 Louis Prang chromolithographed card Valentine. Front image of a young girl with butterfly and flowers; reverse, drawing of hollyhocks and greeting, two cards have silk fringe between them, partially detached. Dated, 1882, and signed by the  artist:LBH (Lizbeth Bullock Humphrey)  (5x6.5) 40

Lot 6  Express Man Comic Valentine depicts express delivery driver, in top hat, with his horse-dawn cart. Pencil  notations on box and beside poem, and signed From Old Beaver. Separated 2 inches along one fold, and ink-stained. Condition fair.  97x9.5) 15

Lot 7  Signed, WOOD, cameo-embossed lace in beautiful pattern showing woman and man in 18th century attire, cherubs, doves, cornucopia, church;  scrap of a young girl, flower, and butterfly; glue spot where a scrap may once have been. Inside, vivid page with poem and geometric designs in blue, red, orange., dated in ink, 1878 (5x7) 35

Lot 8  Lace Quarto with watermark: NASH  Open-work cameo-embossed lace in wide border design with central medallion, which is embossed with gilt accented border; the interior features an original watercolor of roses and pansies, and tender message. Lace is toned, spotted, with bent corner, and segment of lace missing, lower right. Poor condition. Circa 1840s. 50

Lot 9 Calligraphy Part I, pen and ink, charming commemorative  gift of  a  summer  event. Toned, but in
excellent condition. (5.5x7.5) Lots 9 and 10 to be sold together  90

Lot 10 Calligraphy Part II, ink,  poem: Adieu to Summer, from D. Poor to Marietta Spofford. Dated in pencil on reverse :Rowley, MA, 1840  (6x7)

Lot 11 Messenger of Love Large fold-down, die-cut, chromolithographed card with pink honeycomb tissue decoration. Cupid standing among flower bedecked arch, holding a letter. Colors vivid, cupid has slight crease across top of hair, and the tail of the dove is missing.   Germany, circa 1890  (6x9) 40

Lot 12 Watermarked Towgood 1851 Delicate octavo folder embossed in an unusual design that looks like latches on an album. Central circular area has attached glazed lithograph of a  pensive woman. Early silvered Dresden scrap of Cupid’s quiver with arrows crossed upon Hymen’s torch. Gray litho. addressed envelope. 40

Lot 13 Large Unsigned McLoughlin  Pink, white, silver card, with  second chromolithographed layer, topped with another, smaller silvered layer, framing the young girl seen beneath. Four charming die-cuts. (6x9) 25

Lot 14 Wrigley, England Wood engraved octavo. Hand-colored image of a man at a writing desk, sending his missive with a dove at the window, his earlier writing attempts scattered at his feet,  circa 1830. 35

Lot 15 Goddess at Altar  Biedermeier-era engraving on watermarked, laid paper, hand-colored, circa 1790. (4.25x4.25) 80

Lot 16  Unrequited Love, or Despondent Lover Series Quarto,  embossed border, aquatint central image of a woman in red dress with lace portrait collar,  letter in hand: Hark, from my lattice, letter fly… One from a series of fourteen,  English, circa 1840.  Reserve : 150

Lot 17 McLoughlin-style Victorian square Valentine. Unusual green and red blank, with white ivy design, overlaid with lace pattern featuring four lily of the valley posies, and four small die-cuts of flowers and birds. Embossed square envelope.  (6x6) 20

Lot 18 Part I  Hand-colored lithograph on unsigned, embossed octavo page. Cupid with a chained heart, accompanied by envelope listed below.

Lot 18 Part II Elaborately lithographed envelope, design of cherubs and foliate swirls accompanying the lithographed chained heart Valentine, addressed to  Jerome Woodruff, Watertown, Conn., cancelled stamp. Two pieces, 45

Lot 19 Early Lace blank, doors open, with two early gilt Dresden die-cuts: Cupid with a caged heart, and Hymen’s  torch. (2.75x4) Envelope with early red strike cancellation, Burlington to Swanton Falls, VT, circa 1850. (3x5.5) 100

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