c. 1840s Large Paper Lace Valentine with Watercolor Flower (Blank Interior) antique brass stencil which is still rough and

which is still rough and ready to do the job

with some string wrapped around the end at some point long ago to keep a split from encroaching

Guatemalan I believe

but also for the selection of words and phrases chosen for instruction--which

holding in itself a whole lot of capacity for combustion

c. 1840s Large Paper Lace Valentine with Watercolor Flower (Blank Interior) antique brass stencil which is still rough andA 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 these several from more than 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 (who made notes on the envelopes of some, dating this one to the late 1840s) whose collection