Love-ly Antique Paper Lace Valentine old wooden pull toy or perhaps his wife

or perhaps his wife

nuanced palette

One finds hand-colored printed rewards of merits more frequently

with lovely bouquet and pretty gold border

Love-ly Antique Paper Lace Valentine old wooden pull toy or perhaps his wifeI look at a whole lot of antique valentines, including many incorporating paper lace and die cuts, though it's really a rare one of the latter sort that wins me (usually too much fussiness clutter) but this is one of the rare ones. Just lovely. And I do believe it's always the right time for a valentine. With golden cut paper heart and hand colored (watercolored it looks to me) LOVE giving rise to an angel with butterfly wings emerging from the center