Constant Is My Love For Thee, Early Paper Lace Valentine, Under Glass lucite maze puzzle I was quite surprised and

I was quite surprised and delighted to find this one when rummaging through a box of odds and ends at a not especially fine shop about 30 minutes from home the other day

(Plenty of cats

especially with all five side by side

these Gunther Wagner oil crayons in great wooden original box date to sometime prior to the late 1930s

Constant Is My Love For Thee, Early Paper Lace Valentine, Under Glass lucite maze puzzle I was quite surprised andThe second of two of these I found together, the other listed and sold last week this one bearing the happy message "constant is my love for thee." A lovely example of one of these layered paper lace and embossed die cut valentines, or love tokens, and an early one c. 1860s 70s I believe. Detail photos give the best sense of the layering and embossing here with carefully cut colored paper in deep blue and green and brown laid under the paper lace to