Forget Me Not, Lovely Little Victorian Paper Lace Valentine with Cupid yellow schmid cups I really love the mother

I really love the mother pig with bunch of piglets running around on this

wise and mysterious nocturnal creature

and it's a resourcefully made one too: turning it over reveals that it was fashioned from a hand-written letter (still largely readable

which reads wide eyed-happy-attentive from one side

especially one of these hand-painted candleholders with wire footed birds perched here and there in the manner of Aurelio Flores

Forget Me Not, Lovely Little Victorian Paper Lace Valentine with Cupid yellow schmid cups I really love the motherA handful of Victorian paper lace valentines today, because 'tis almost the season, and what a lovely thing to give to a beloved, including oneself. I'm fussy about ones I like, choosing this and a few more from over a hundred 19th c. examples I had the joy of perusing last weekend, which had been collected over many years by a major Maine based paper dealer, whose collection was not long ago acquired by another Maine dealer and friend. A note that