card; Valentine

Production date
1870
 Description
Hand drawn Victorian card, drawn by H Knox and given to Miss Knox, Camelon for St Valentines Day 1870. It has been framed. Circular card with blue, red, white, yellow, green and brown. It is decorated with four ladies, four men, eight hearts and eight peacocks on the outer boarder. The inner one has eight crowns and trees. Another inner boarder has eight hearts and lattice work. The centre has a lady, man, table and window. Written on the outer border is "A LOVER SENDS YOU THIS WHO HOPE YOU WONT TAKE IT AMISS AND IF YOU TAKE IT IN GOOD PART IT WILL PLEASE MY MIND AND WARM MY HEART IF IN DISTAIN YOU IT REFUSE THE PAPER BURN AND ME EXCUSE I CANNOT USE THE COMMON LINES COMPOSED FOR LOVER VALENTINES AS NO LOTS WERE CAST ON NAMES I DREW YET MY AFFECTIONS PLACED ON YOU YOU'RE OF MY KIN BY ME BELOVED MY DAUGHTER TOO BUT ONCE REMOVED BEING OF MY KIN I FRANKLY TELL I LOVE MY LOVELY ISABEL NO MORE NO LOVE I'LL SAY OR WRITE BUT EXPLAIN THE OBJECTS HERE IN SIGHT ON THE OUTER EDGE APPEARS IN VIEW FOUR GENTLEMENT AND LADIES TOO THEY MAY SEEM NICE AND YET GET ONE YOUNG ROBIN, THOMAS, DICK OR JOHN EIGHT PEACOCKS HERE AND TWELVE HEARTS THERE ALL EMBLEMS OF MY LOVE SINCERE I ON THE FIRST ROW, TWO WHEELS ARE THROUGH EIGHT TIMES FOUR HEARTS IN ALL THIRTY TWO TO THE SECOND ROW DIRECT YOUR EYES AND VIEW THE GRANDEUR WITH SURPRISE EIGHT GOLDEN CROWNS WE HERE DO SEE PROPED BY EIGHT TREES OF LIBERTY ROYALTY AND LIBERTYS LINKED FAST THE REFORM BILL WILL SOON BE PAST IN THE CENTRE ARE LOVE HEARTS ENEW FOUR RED AND FOUR BLUE NOW DRAWING NEAR MY TETHER'S END I STYLE MYSELF YOUR LOVING FRIEND YES I LOVE MY MARION DEAR AND THAT TRUE CONSTATN AND SINCERE NOT PRETENDENT LOVE LIKE YOUTHFUL FOLKS I AM YOUR LOVER H. KNOX. " Written in the centre is "THIS AS A TESTIMONY OF SINCERE LOVE WAS MADE FOR AND PRESENTED TO MISS KNOX, CAMELON, BY HER KIND ADMIRERE, JAN 1870 TO MY TETHER'S END NOW DRAWING NEAR BY THIS FOND COUPLE PAINTED HERE IS MEANT MYSELF AND HER I LOVE DEAR."
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1870
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writing:outer border:"A LOVER SENDS YOU THIS WHO HOPE YOU WONT TAKE IT AMISS AND IF YOU TAKE IT IN GOOD PART IT WILL PLEASE MY MIND AND WARM MY HEART IF IN DISTAIN YOU IT REFUSE THE PAPER BURN AND ME EXCUSE I CANNOT USE THE COMMON LINES COMPOSED FOR LOVER VALENTINES AS NO LOTS WERE CAST ON NAMES I DREW YET MY AFFECTIONS PLACED ON YOU YOU'RE OF MY KIN BY ME BELOVED MY DAUGHTER TOO BUT ONCE REMOVED BEING OF MY KIN I FRANKLY TELL I LOVE MY LOVELY ISABEL NO MORE NO LOVE I'LL SAY OR WRITE BUT EXPLAIN THE OBJECTS HERE IN SIGHT ON THE OUTER EDGE APPEARS IN VIEW FOUR GENTLEMENT AND LADIES TOO THEY MAY SEEM NICE AND YET GET ONE YOUNG ROBIN, THOMAS, DICK OR JOHN EIGHT PEACOCKS HERE AND TWELVE HEARTS THERE ALL EMBLEMS OF MY LOVE SINCERE I ON THE FIRST ROW, TWO WHEELS ARE THROUGH EIGHT TIMES FOUR HEARTS IN ALL THIRTY TWO TO THE SECOND ROW DIRECT YOUR EYES AND VIEW THE GRANDEUR WITH SURPRISE EIGHT GOLDEN CROWNS WE HERE DO SEE PROPED BY EIGHT TREES OF LIBERTY ROYALTY AND LIBERTYS LINKED FAST THE REFORM BILL WILL SOON BE PAST IN THE CENTRE ARE LOVE HEARTS ENEW FOUR RED AND FOUR BLUE NOW DRAWING NEAR MY TETHER'S END I STYLE MYSELF YOUR LOVING FRIEND YES I LOVE MY MARION DEAR AND THAT TRUE CONSTATN AND SINCERE NOT PRETENDENT LOVE LIKE YOUTHFUL FOLKS I AM YOUR LOVER H. KNOX. " Written in the centre is "THIS AS A TESTIMONY OF SINCERE LOVE WAS MADE FOR AND PRESENTED TO MISS KNOX, CAMELON, BY HER KIND ADMIRERE, JAN 1870 TO MY TETHER'S END NOW DRAWING NEAR BY THIS FOND COUPLE PAINTED HERE IS MEANT MYSELF AND HER I LOVE DEAR."
Accession number
1978-457-001

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