Love-ly Antique Paper Lace Valentine old wooden pull toy Just as I love antique

Just as I love antique daguerreotypes of painted portraits

giving this piece a striking elegance in addition to its quintessential MCM-ness

4 1/2" t x 4 3/4" in diameter

or perhaps his wife

with lovely bouquet and pretty gold border

Love-ly Antique Paper Lace Valentine old wooden pull toy Just as I love antiqueI 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