Constant Is My Love For Thee, Early Paper Lace Valentine, Under Glass farming tool with a wooden ring for

with a wooden ring for standing it up to display

The look of it makes it feel as if it should have hung on a rail at a car racing track (or maybe a demotion derby

though he can be balanced to sit on the screws

Weaving itself is in very good condition

and with a slide opening on one end and an inset piece at the bottom

Constant Is My Love For Thee, Early Paper Lace Valentine, Under Glass farming tool with a wooden ring forThe 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