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Title

Valentine novelty, no. 431.

Publication

[United States : publisher not identified, between 1930 and 1959?]

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Details

Additional Authors

Children's Room Collection.

Description

1 diorama : color; 23 x 28 x 3 cm

Subject

• Valentines > Specimens

Note

• A novelty Valentine's greeting card with a nautical theme.
• Constructed of paper and celluloid: The base is stiff pink paper. Laid on the backing is a colored scene with blue sky, deep blue water, and a verdant shoreline. The central motif is a silver gilt cast metal sailing ship adheared to the scene. The metal ship has a steam funnel with cotton wool steam coming out of the top. A white satin ribbon "pennant" is fixed at the top of the mast. Surrounding the scene with the metal ship is an oval frame of "clouds" made of pinked white parchment paper and pinked pink celluloid with inked lines parallel to the scalloped edges, within a pinked pink celluloid "frame." The "clouds" are fixed to the backing with brass and black (tarnished silver?) metal round headed fasteners. Height is maintained by pinning the clouds to the backing in loops and occasionally running the fasteners through small wooden beads placed randomly between the celluloid and the backing material. The entire scene was inside a lacy pierced paper frame (only fragments of the frame remain).
• Title from a label on a fragment of the side of the original box (19+ x 2 cm). Appears to have been boxed flat, before assembly.

Call Number

*KH 1930 Valentine 17-199

OCLC

990275342

Title

Valentine novelty, no. 431.

Imprint

[United States : publisher not identified, between 1930 and 1959?]

Type of Content

three-dimensional form

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

object

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Added Author

Children's Room Collection.

Research Call Number

*KH 1930 Valentine 17-199