A Heart's Desire Valentine postcard with roses and verse – Antique Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare vintage postcard captures A Heart's Desire Valentine postcard with roses and verse in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
The framed print arrives ready to hang; the unframed option suits custom framing. It brings character to any room and makes a memorable gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
A Heart's Desire Valentine postcard with roses and verse
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Lacking a photograph's documentary detail, this item is a Valentine postcard decorated with roses and a short verse, its title, "A Heart's Desire," printed in the sentimental language that marked many cards of its kind. Postcards like this rose to popularity in the United States and Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when cheap color printing and the postal system made it easy to send a brief greeting across town or across the country. Senders often chose a card for its verse as much as its picture, so the words on a card like this one can reveal as much about courtship manners of the time as the artwork does.
| Original scan | 527 × 813 px |
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| Reference | Img14 |
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