Description:
Print of two birds dressed as people who are kissing, over with a verse: "This Valentine's a looking glass, in which you both may view / How like a pair of Turtle Doves you wont to bill and coo; / A pair of birds so tender 'neath a gilt of crust should lie, / Embedded in a dish and made a loving pigeon pie. / HUESTIS / 104 Nassau St, cor. Ann, N.Y." This print is inscribed in ink on the front, "St. Valentine Day / Feb. 14th / 1848" and on the reverse, "Mr. Evander Stebbins / and Miss Matilda Childs / Deerfield / Mass." over the remains of a red wax seal. The son of Zabina Stebbins (1797-1879) and Ruby Graves Stebbins (1796-1879), Evander Graves Stebbins (1821-1885) married Matilda Childs Stebbins (1824-1885) in 1848. This print went to their son, Charles Henry Stebbins (b.1859) and Elizabeth MacMahon Stebbins (1858-1919) who married in 1880; and to Charles and Elizabeth's daughter, Florence Copeland Stebbins (1888-1966) who married Albert Elmer Shaw (1886-1952) in Deerfield in 1913 and then lived in Webster, Massachusetts.
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