To Jeanette, My (Muddy Buddy) Valentine, With Love From F.W african american and how much—like a high

and how much—like a high school yearbook—it reveals of the times

carved of wood and clad in its original silver and gold paint

Transfer printing was used on a large scale for the first time at Battersea

I presume identifying where it came from

Lushly rendered in watercolor and dated 1859

To Jeanette, My (Muddy Buddy) Valentine, With Love From F.W african american and how much—like a highA sweet old homemade valentine that can double as as a 'happy Easter,' I'd say, with this charmer of a crayoned rabbit in blue jacket carrying what surely could pass for a basket of decorated eggs! It's the combination of him and the message inside that does it for me here: The road is muddy you are my buddy and this is the time to be my valentine. Pretty sweet. 5 7 8" x 4 1 2" closed. The crayoned rabbit was drawn, cut out and pasted down with green