Constant Is My Love For Thee, Early Paper Lace Valentine, Under Glass lucite maze puzzle a teacher and a student

a teacher and a student

beautiful surface

I was quite surprised and delighted to find this one when rummaging through a box of odds and ends at a not especially fine shop about 30 minutes from home the other day

(Plenty of cats

and can't guarantee that every drawer will disassemble easily)

Constant Is My Love For Thee, Early Paper Lace Valentine, Under Glass lucite maze puzzle a teacher and a studentThe 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