A Summons to the Court of Hymen, with blank spaces for full names and dates, the text ‘you have this day been charged before the undersigned, one of Cupid’s Justices of the Peace, in and for the said Court of Hymen, for that you wilfully, feloniously, and designedly waylaid, entrapped and stole from the plaintiff in this cause, A Heart, the whole, sole and real property of the said plaintiff’, and continuing with a summons to appear on the date to be filled in by the giver, signed by I Love Well, with various vignettes and a large V and R (Victoria Regina) in the style of a genuine court order of the day, some damage due to mounting, overall very fine and scarce
Outing unlisted £150-£200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Sir David Kirch Collection of Skit Notes.

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