Sailor's Shellwork and Watercolor Valentine on Stand, Mid-Nineteenth Century. Painted in the center with a potentilla sprig within a shell border, flanked by a pair of blossoms and above the inscription "A PRESENT FROM," surrounded by groups of colored shells in geometric patterns, housed in a mahogany octagonal case mounted on a Hepplewhite stand. H: 16.5 in., W: 12.125 in., D: 12.125 in. (case)

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16.5 x 12.125 x 12.125 in