Josie's C. 1850s Victorian Die Cut Valentine in Period Frame, Dayton, Ohio coal cart and heavy enough to be

and heavy enough to be stable but easy to move around

but in fact is it both super useful and quite a pleasure

I also love the dramatic stems and pencil-drawn flourished around them

I believe this was likely a front matter page of a much studied book

Josie's C. 1850s Victorian Die Cut Valentine in Period Frame, Dayton, Ohio coal cart and heavy enough to beI tend to pass over Victorian die cut creations in favor of hand drawn ones, but this early Valentine., c. 1850s or so, feels as much the latter as the former, and I think is just wonderful. It appears to have been made for a Josie Millie __ (?) of Dayton Ohio, with her name written several times in pencil inside the heart constructed of many bits of die cut greenery and flowers. Then below, several lines of a poem, the first two of which one can