- A Sachet Valentine

S. l. (England), s. n. 1860. Sachet valentine, n. d. (1860s); 5 x 3 1/2; several layers of gilded and embossed paper lace, forming an elaborate, 4-sided envelope; recto with two die-cut chromolithographs of flowers and butterflies; verso with a larger chromolithograph of a floral bouquet; silk satchet within, with a poem printed on it; remarkably well-preserved, with minor loss of paper to edges; in very good or better condition. Although unsigned, the stunning valentine could possibly be attributed to Benjamin Sulman - renowned British lithographer and manufacturer of greeting cards and valentines in the 1860s and 1870s, in the lavish style of the current one and quite often containing a perfumed sachet. The novelty of a sachet valentine would have been irresistible to the ladies - what with receiving a secret message, printed on a pad of perfumed silk, which reads: “Forget-Me-Not”: I have a little flower I tend it ev’ry day I place it where the sun- beam May warm it with its ray, I would thou wert that flower! And I, the sun to thee How sweetly should’st thou bask love, In purest beams from me-- I’d peer into each dew- drop bright, That in thy petals lay And finding there imag’d light, I’d kiss thy drops away! . Very good .

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