c.1720 European devotional valentines with central pictures of Jesus or Saint Elizabeth, superbly hand painted on fine parchment, with fine hand cut designs, early and rare. (2).
Opening GBP 150.00
Sold...GBP 130.00
Closed..May-07-2026, 02:00:00 EST
Sold For 130
Sale No: 58
Lot No: 32
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c.1810-40 Valentine lettersheets with embossed paperlace borders, the first with a central engraving of a lady with an anchor and ship behind, addressed to "Mr Folkniew Esq, Miles Cort number five, Barth", handwritten verses inside, hand delivered; also a lettersheet by Kershaw with central mirror, and lettersheet by Dobbs & Co with applied scraps, silk flowers and an envelope containing two plates with knives and forks. Three attractive early cards. (3).
Opening GBP 150.00
Sold...GBP 160.00
Closed..May-07-2026, 02:00:00 EST
Sold For 160
Sale No: 58
Lot No: 33
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1813 (Feb 17) Valentine lettersheet with handpainted images of love and a short rhyming couplet, posted from Dover to "Miss Mary Moxon, Ship Alley, Wellclose Square, London", charged 8d with Dover 72 mileage mark. Minor creasing, otherwise fine, early and attractive.
Opening GBP 150.00
Sold...GBP 130.00
Closed..May-07-2026, 02:00:00 EST
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Lot No: 35
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1837 (Feb 13) Dobbs & Co valentine lettersheet with embossed borders and central rose, handwritten verses and symbols in gold, with a blue border, posted from Winchester to "Miss E. Dick, Bellcone Place, Southampton" prepaid 4d, Winchester backstamp, fine and attractive.
Opening GBP 180.00
Sold...GBP 160.00
Closed..May-07-2026, 02:00:00 EST
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Sale No: 58
Lot No: 36
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c.1840-60 Printed lithographic valentine lettersheets with attractive borders containing a verse or romantic scene, a sailor, a ship with stern opening to reveal cupid delivering a valentine to a sailor, or a heart within a maze, all handcoloured, an attractive group. (6).
Opening GBP 180.00
Sold...GBP 600.00
Closed..May-07-2026, 02:00:00 EST
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Sale No: 58
Lot No: 37
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c.1840 Valentine lettersheets produced by Addenbrooke with central handcoloured prints of pretty ladies (3) or scenes from the series entitled "The unrequited love" (2) or "The Despondent lover" (2), surrounded by printed designs and embossed borders with a verse below, one duplicated design, fine and attractive. (7).
Opening GBP 240.00
Sold...GBP 250.00
Closed..May-07-2026, 02:00:00 EST
Sold For 250
Sale No: 58
Lot No: 38
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c.1840-60 Valentines with handwritten verses, one within thick heavily embossed pink card, six others within finely pierced and embossed paperlace borders (one with similar hand addressed envelope, also three unused envelopes), also two others written on plain paper hand delivered in New York in 1845 or posted within London in 1847. (13).
Opening GBP 240.00
Sold...GBP 480.00
Closed..May-07-2026, 02:00:00 EST
Sold For 480
Sale No: 58
Lot No: 39
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c.1840-70 Valentine cards on pages illustrating the principal manufactures, comprising cards by Joseph Mansell (7, also two envelopes), George Kershaw, George Meek (6, also a card commemorating the 1863 marriage of the Prince & Princess of Wales), J.T Wood & Co (2), Jonathon King (postally used in 1860) or John Windsor (3), many fine and attractive cards, many with elaborate embossed and pierced designs. (21).
Opening GBP 400.00
Sold...GBP 340.00
Closed..May-07-2026, 02:00:00 EST
Sold For 340
Sale No: 58
Lot No: 40
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c.1840-60 Cards on pages illustrating various symbolism used in the designs, all with embossed or paperlace borders with centrally applied flowers, books, stockings, a travelling case which opens to reveal a young man in a jewellers shop and a verse, love birds, a ladder, cupids, writing desk with a feather quill pen, apples, a thermometer, a cottage, etc., cards by Dobbs & Co., Mansell & Co., Burke and J.T Wood & Co., one posted in 1865. A attractive group. (13).
Opening GBP 280.00
Sold...GBP 440.00
Closed..May-07-2026, 02:00:00 EST
Sold For 440
Sale No: 58
Lot No: 41
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c.1840-60 Comic Valentines, eight printed handcoloured cards by A. Park showing types of male suitors or anthropomorphic pictures with verses below, four similar but finer cards showing types of men or women suitors, and a handdrawn card showing two young ladies tormenting a bachelor, possibly an original design for a commercially produced card. (13).
Opening GBP 150.00
Sold...GBP 170.00
Closed..May-07-2026, 02:00:00 EST
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Sale No: 58
Lot No: 42
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c.1840-80 Cards including fine paperlace and early lettersheet type cards, one postally used with an 1859 envelope, one card within a finely printed envelope by Marcus Ward bearing Hastings wafer seal, also a large U.S valentine envelope attractively printed in gold. (20).
Opening GBP 250.00
Sold...GBP 260.00
Closed..May-07-2026, 02:00:00 EST
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Sale No: 58
Lot No: 43
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c.1840-90 Valentine cards including early examples by Joseph Mansell with a mirror within a heavily embossed and pierced card or prints within circular pierced cards (2), paperlace card with verse in the form of an advertisement in The Times, mechanical cards with moving parts (7), circular or heart shaped cards, etc., an attractive and unusual lot. (22).
Opening GBP 350.00
Sold...GBP 420.00
Closed..May-07-2026, 02:00:00 EST
Sold For 420
Sale No: 58
Lot No: 44
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1843 (Feb 12) Valentine lettersheet with a picture of two lovers in the Scottish countryside, engraved by J. Fairburn, 110 Minories, hand coloured with a verse below, entitled "The Lass O Gowrie". Posted from Norwich to "Master Edward Lubbock, Scottow Vicarage, near North Walsham" bearing a 1d red (just touched at left), reverse with Norwich datestamp and "Too Late". A fine and attractive valentine which can be folded to display the picture and backstamps. Photo on Page 8. (Image1)
Opening GBP 240.00
Sold...GBP 230.00
Closed..May-07-2026, 02:00:00 EST
Sold For 230
Sale No: 58
Lot No: 45
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1847 Valentines in the form of banknotes from the Bank of True Love, two very similar valentines on thin pink paper, one published by John Hicks in Glasgow, one in an envelope hand delivered to Miss June Fleming, the other posted from London to Bristol with a 1d red cancelled by crossed lines and "RH" by the sender and just tied by a numeral cancel, redirected to Downend, a wafer seal on reverse. (2).
Opening GBP 150.00
Sold...GBP 130.00
Closed..May-07-2026, 02:00:00 EST
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Sale No: 58
Lot No: 46
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c.1850-90 Valentine cards on pages, various types with embossed and paperlace cards, the use of scraps, miniature cards, etc. (24).
Opening GBP 350.00
Sold...GBP 340.00
Closed..May-07-2026, 02:00:00 EST
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Sale No: 58
Lot No: 47
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c.1850-1990 Valentines with Victorian cards (c.51), also 1936-64 G.P.O Valentine Greetings telegrams (19), postcards, and some more recent cards (mainly addressed to the collector Bobbie Lancaster), many elaborate and attractive earlier cards, some faults. (100+).
Opening GBP 200.00
Sold...GBP 160.00
Closed..May-07-2026, 02:00:00 EST
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Sale No: 58
Lot No: 48
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c.1850-1900 Valentines, many with fine paperlace designs, envelope types, attached scraps, a couple in boxes, a few handpainted, identified makers include Meek, Mansell, Sulman, Mossman, Windsor, Mullord, also a couple of Christmas and New Year cards. (74).
Opening GBP 350.00
Sold...GBP 300.00
Closed..May-07-2026, 02:00:00 EST
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Sale No: 58
Lot No: 49
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1868-73 Embossed valentine envelopes all posted on February 13th with 1d reds, from Redditch, Staplehurst or Tunbridge, two containing attractive embossed cards with central scraps depicting flowers. (5).
Opening GBP 120.00
Sold...GBP 100.00
Closed..May-07-2026, 02:00:00 EST
Sold For 100
Sale No: 58
Lot No: 50
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c.1870-1906 Valentines in the form of telegrams (3), a promissory note from the Lovers Banking Co or a Summons to the Court of True Love, two of the telegram type cards printed by Ernst Nister of Nuremberg probably for the American market, and a "Love s Telegram" envelope printed by Nister posted in the U.S.A in 1906, also a 1930 valentine postcard depicting a Western Union valentine telegram and envelope. An unusual group. (7).
Opening GBP 150.00
Sold...GBP 140.00
Closed..May-07-2026, 02:00:00 EST
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Sale No: 58
Lot No: 51
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1878 (Feb 13) Printed envelope with cherubs, birds, trees and a temple in silhouette form, entitled "Fact and Fiction illustrated", addressed to "Miss Gordon Watson, Dorney House, Dorney, Windsor" with a 1d red tied by Windsor duplex, containing an attractive Dobbs Kidd & Co paperlace valentine with two stockings worn at the heels and toes, entitled "High Hose! or the inconvenience of an unmarried life, never too late to mend". A fine and unusual envelope with enclosed card. (2). Photo on Page 14. (Image1)
Opening GBP 160.00
Sold...GBP 250.00
Closed..May-07-2026, 02:00:00 EST
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Sale No: 58
Lot No: 53
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U.S.A. c.1850 Valentine envelopes, a large envelope superbly printed on both sides with flowers and patterns in gold, addressed to Albany with Louisville, Ky. c.d.s; six other embossed envelopes with enclosed embossed or paperlace cards (4) or handwritten valentine poems (2), one addressed within Philadelphia backstamped "BLOOD S / PENNY POST / PHILIDA" c.d.s (Feb 12), two posted within Springfield, Ohio with red "PAID" and Springfield c.d.s (Feb 16) or to Mt. Pleasant, Ohio handstamped "PAID", three others hand delivered, two bearing wafer seals. (7 + 4 cards).
Opening GBP 200.00
Sold...GBP 170.00
Closed..May-07-2026, 02:00:00 EST
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Lot No: 55
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U.S.A. c.1860-1910 Valentine cards (24), later postcards (5), 1914 valentine poster stamps within their original box (12), 1930 cover bearing a similar poster stamp, and 1934-35 covers with U.S Ship Valentine s day cancels, also an 1879 price list for chromolithographic scraps, two letters bearing such scraps and a few unused examples. A good lot, many of the cards very elaborate. (47+).
Opening GBP 200.00
Sold...GBP 170.00
Closed..May-07-2026, 02:00:00 EST
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Lot No: 56
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U.S.A. c.1870-1903 Embossed envelopes (11), eight with enclosed valentine cards, franked 1c (5), 2c (3) or 3c (3), a fine and attractive group. (11 + 8 cards).
