Sailor's valentine

A padded heart-shaped cushion in pink and white silk with a brown back. A photograph of HMS 'Bonaventure' is mounted in the centre - she is shown as a depot ship which dates the photograph between 1907-1909 - the time Cochrane served on her. Artificial flowers, beads and black sequins are pinned to the cushion which has a woollen fringe. It is inscribed 'THINK OF ME' in blue beads towards the top. The valentine was displayed on a stand in a glass dome with a wood base. It belonged, and was probably made, by the donor's father George Ernest Cochrane, as a present for his fiancé, Edith Mary Andrews who he married in 1910. Cochrane was born in 1879 in London, and served in the Royal Marines between 1896-1909.