Boxed Valentine's Day Card

Anonymous, British or American, 19th century British or American

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Rectangular box, adressed on the inside: " To Bessie / from Grandmama Harding / February 14th 1876". On the lid of the box a poem entitled "Let us love one another" is stuck together with a scrap containing the word " unity". The card is made up out of a raised lacelike structure decorated with colored flowers, a butterfly and scraps containing the frases "happiness" and "Think of me".

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