A sailor's valentine where gifts of octagonal wooden boxes decorated with intricate symmetrical designs of small seashells made between the 1830-1890s. The boxes were brought home from a sailor's voyage and given to the sailor's loved one. Sailors took credit for making the boxes even though the majority of the valentines were made by women on the island of Barbados
Martha’s
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