1800c Victorian Sailors Valentine Shell Picture Frame

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Red Velvet Victorian Era Shell Art Picture Frame This auction is for an antique Victorian Era love token seashell picture frame. The Red Velvet is in great condition. The stand is original and is in excellent condition and it has a metal ring for hanging. You can load any picture that will fit through the back. Looks like a post card size picture . All the shells seem to be t Wow what a piece this would be for your collection. Overall It is in Very Good condition. 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. 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.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 read more

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