May You Be Happy, 19th C. Paper Lace Love Token Under Glass document tube I am listing additional examples

I am listing additional examples from the same portfolio in a separate posting

but now I am wondering if it might not be a Styracosaurus or some other one horned dinosaur

and I'm really rather obsessed with it as very resolved feeling

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May You Be Happy, 19th C. Paper Lace Love Token Under Glass document tube I am listing additional examplesA beautiful 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. I would guess this one was actually given on the occasion of a birth or christening, with the hopes of a happy life being imparted to the child, and, it looks to me, a babtism occurring at top center though it also looks a bit like a baby in a bird cage! Detail photos give the best sense of the layering and