1899 Elaborate Valentine Card w/ Gorgeous Gold Paper Lace & Die Cuts*

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1899 Elaborate Antique Valentine's Day Card
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This is an original antique Valentines Day card. It is NOT a reproduction. During the 1890-1920's elaborate Valentine's Day cards were all the rage. They were made with lace, honeycomb paper, scraps of die cut images such as flowers, animals, children, angels, women and hearts. Often they are layered and have paper springs between the layers to give them a popped out 3-D look.
This beautiful card has very delicate & detailed Gorgeous Gold Paper Lace. The lace has three beautiful die cuts. One die cut is a colorful bird. The other die cuts are flowers, pink and white roses. The lace is on paper springs. There is also a verse inside. The card is mounted on a pink piece of paper. The envelope is also mounted on the pink paper. The date is on the envelope. There is a 2 cent stamp on the beautiful lace envelope.
History of Die Cuts: "
During the Victorian Era (1837-1901), middle-class households would often have a family scrap album, where the bits of paper collected each day could be collages onto its thick pages.
Ticket stubs
,
brochures
,
greeting cards
, newspaper clippings,
paper dolls
,
postcards
, business cards, ribbons, literary excerpts, and eventually
photographs
were all preserved on the pages of these memory books. In response to the scrap booking trend, 19th-century bookmakers designed blank albums with elaborate, tooled-leather covers, gilt paper edgings, and engraved clasps. The earliest materials explicitly produced as die-cut “scrap” for decorating homemade albums were black-and-white, hand-colored etchings. As lithography processes improved, bright colors, textured embossing, and glossy finishes were employed to enhance the printed imagery.
By the late 1800s,
Britain,
Germany, and the
United States
had become the leaders in such scrap production. Successful companies like Currier & Ives and Raphael Tuck & Sons created beautiful scrap pieces alongside smaller brands like Allen & Ginter and Littauer & Boysen. But the German die cuts are considered the best because of the details of their tooling process."
Die cuts are embossed and glossy.
Card Measures about 5-3/4" W  x 7-3/4" H.
Guaranteed to be "old" and authentic. Not a recent reproduction.
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