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1800 Sailors Valentine Roundel shape Bubble Glass frame

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Sold Date: 07/19/2009
Channel: Online Auction
Source: eBay
Category: Ethnic, Folk & Native American Art

Very Rare Victorian Era

Shell Art Bubble Glass Picture

This auction is for an antique Victorian Era Round shape Roundel or sometimes called Portholes, meaning Today the pictures provide us with an interesting porthole into what subjects interested them. This is a Rare round shape convex glass to resemble a porthole with a sailing ship in the fore front at port with sailors on board. This piece is dirty from sitting around for over 100 years. It has the original metal ring for hanging. All of the seashells seem to be t It is all original. Overall It is in

Very Good condition. VERY RARE..!

In the late nineteenth century no beau would dare to visit his sweetheart without taking some token of his true feelings, a bunch of flowers,candy,an item of jewelry or a book of poems. From a wide range of shell decorated items that have survived and the message of Love and Affection that they often bare, it appears that boxes and trinkets,decorated in shells were also popular gifts for loved ones.

HEARTS, perhaps because they symbolized dependability with a romantic hint of travel to exotic places were also popular, encrusted with shells containing colorful prints, usually of seascapes,coastal resorts or romantic scenes, incorporating an arrangement of shells, dried mosses and grasses, all sealed under glass were very popular as a fond remembrance of a tour. The Heart shape was so popular as its shape gave a sense of romance to the gift

Some people would call this an old sailors valentine. Sailors would pick these shell items up to give them to t sweethearts when they got home. Love tokens as it were. It was also the custom of the day when visiting the seashore to collect shells as mementos of the trip and friends met along the way. Paper shops would sell paper boxes / picture frames in decorative designs for the purpose of covering them with the gatd shells. It is a custom simular to making a memory jar, vase etc. Women at that time were also very adept at making their own gifts and love tokens to friends from inexpensive material as they often times had very little access to ready cash. Their husbands holding the purse strings as it were.

Measures at 6 " round What a great RARE find!

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The group pic is of the other victorian shell art items that I have on ebay for sale.

If you are the high bidder on 3 or more shell art items that I'm currently selling on ebay...I will pay all shipping costs.

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Check out my other items! Simular pieces may be viewed in Smyth's Neptune's Treasure book. I'm no expert in this stuff, some of these items are dirty from sitting around, so what you see is what you get. Sold as is. Buyer pays actual shipping cost with insurance. No charge for packaging or handling. Feel free to email me with any questions.