love token (2 Ergebnisse)

Ambrotype, visible image 70 x 57 mm (3 x 2¼ inches), finelyhand-tinted, gilt mount with decorative border, in folding leather case with decoration embossed in blind on the upper cover, functioning gilt clasps; case rubbed.An ambrotype portrait of a young woman with a photographic brooch at her neck depicting a man, presumably her betrothed or spouse. The envelope in her hands may indicate their correspondence, perhaps while her lover is far away.

showing a hand holding up a rich posy of spring flowers within an oval wreath, the posy pulls back to reveal "I love thee dearly" in tiny letters, all on a blind embossed cream card, with leaf-like indentations, green paper ferns in the corners, 1 side 4¾" x 3¼", no place, no date, circa lacking bottom left fern.