Valentine card.

Author: 
Ronald Searle
Publication details: 
1959
£35.00
SKU: 3451

Dimensions when folded roughly 4 3/4 inches by 6 inches. Somewhat grubby, but well printed and in good condition overall. Front of card printed in black with Searle's printed signature and 'to my Valentine -' in red at head. Cartoon illustration of bespectacled young lady with bouffant hair and hairband, in dainty skirt and heels, holding beribboned had in front of her, posing in front of wall on which she casts large shadow of horned devil with tail. Opens out to 9 1/2 inches by 6 inches, showing red printed illustration of same lady scowling while playing violin on chaise longue with beer barrel, together with heart and four lines of verse also printed in red ink. Manuscript inscription in blue ink from 'Cherry Brandy' 'To/ Four Foxes | I am waiting to see if the prophecy of one will come true'. Copyright '1959 | RONALD SEARLE' on back of card, with trademark of Valentine's Cloth of Gold Greeting Cards.