A Sachet Valentine

S. l. (England): s. n., 1860. Very good. Sachet valentine, n. d. (1860s); 5 x 3 1/2; several layers of gilded and embossed paper lace, forming an elaborate, 4-sided envelope; recto with two die-cut chromolithographs of flowers and butterflies; verso with a larger chromolithograph of a floral bouquet; silk satchet within, with a poem printed on it; remarkably well-preserved, with minor loss of paper to edges; in very good or better condition.Although unsigned, the stunning valentine could possibly be attributed to Benjamin Sulman - renowned British lithographer and manufacturer of greeting cards and valentines in the 1860s and 1870s, in the lavish style of the current one and quite often containing a perfumed sachet. The novelty of a sachet valentine would have been irresistible to the ladies - what with receiving a secret message, printed on a pad of perfumed silk, which reads: “Forget-Me-Not”:I have a little flowerI tend it ev’ry dayI place it where the sun-beamMay warm it with its ray,I would thou wert thatflower!And I, the sun to theeHow sweetly should’stthou bask love,In purest beams from me--I’d peer into each dew-drop bright,That in thy petals layAnd finding thereimag’d light,I’d kiss thy drops away!