Handmade Antique Valentine in Great Old Hand-carved Frame contemporary pottery vase and blood red mouth

and blood red mouth

5" nose to tail

and as this is quite an old sign

but it is this larger one with perfectly scratched and dinged up surface and "CHIPS" hand-painted in red that made me buy these

with the clay body showing through especially on and near the foot

Handmade Antique Valentine in Great Old Hand-carved Frame contemporary pottery vase and blood red mouthWhen I your love remember Such wealth it brings That them I scorn to change My state with kings. A bit of an unusual rhyme, which gives a bit of an extra bite to the bleeding arrow on the other heart, as if shooting away others wanting to take our writer's place! I'm clearly a sucker for a handmade valentine, and also a great frame, which is definitely the case with this old carved one, detailed with gold paint that to my eye subtly echoes the form of