Handmade Antique Valentine in Great Old Hand-carved Frame lovely decor handles hanging down

handles hanging down

but with its solid black ground also looks really sharp against crisp white bedding

These were awarded to a young "Master Charley Geoppinger" in the late 1870s or so by a couple of different teachers - two of them for a hundred merits

with four separate setting dials on the back

A little smudging and age toning but very good condition

Handmade Antique Valentine in Great Old Hand-carved Frame lovely decor handles hanging downWhen I your love remember Such wealth it brings That them I scorn to change My state with kings. A bit of an unusual rhyme, which gives a bit of an extra bite to the bleeding arrow on the other heart, as if shooting away others wanting to take our writer's place! I'm clearly a sucker for a handmade valentine, and also a great frame, which is definitely the case with this old carved one, detailed with gold paint that to my eye subtly echoes the form of