Property from the Collection of Elsi🥃e and Philip Sang

(Valentines)

A Col🍃lection of 87 Valentines and Greeting Cards, circa 1840s-1890s

87 cards, ranging in size from approximately 83 x 64 mm to 254 x 203 mm, many with ornate gilt or silver embossed borders, paper lace, fringed borders, silk appliques, handcolored vignettes and titles, chromolithographed design moti🦋fs, some with contempor⛎ary ink inscriptions, at least two "pop up" valentines; scattered wear. 

Includes a rare Kate Greenaway designed vale༒ntine from the ℱ1880s.