Title:
Can you keep a secret? If so open this.
Published / Created:

Great Britain : publisher not identified, mid-19th century.

Physical Description:
1 card ; 12 x 18 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
NC1866.V3 C6+ no. 25 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Related Content:
View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:14882895
Classification:
Prints
Notes:

Valentine card. Cream paper valentine with embossed and cut paper against orange paper background. Two movable flaps, with botanical illustrations on front, which when opened reveal text: I love you dearly. Also decorated with silver scraps.

Subject Terms:
Valentines -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
Form/Genre:
Ephemera. | Valentines. | Botanical illustrations | Embossed papers. | Cut-paper works. | Scraps. | Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1850. | Flaps.