Die-cut Valentine card with cupid and hearts – Historic Reproduction
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Die-cut Valentine card with cupid and hearts, a historic image rich in period detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Die-cut Valentine card with cupid and hearts
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A die-cut Valentine with a cupid and a scatter of hearts shows how far the holiday's greeting cards had moved toward decorative novelty by the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Die-cutting used a steel blade pressed through card stock, letting printers turn flat sheets into lacy, scalloped, or shaped motifs that could stand apart from plain printed borders. Cupid, the winged figure of desire borrowed from Roman mythology, became a standard emblem on these cards, often shown with a bow and arrow to suggest love striking the heart. Such cards were typically exchanged between sweethearts, friends, and relatives, so their charm lay as much in the handwork of cutting and folding as in the sentiment printed on them.
| Original scan | 837 × 749 px |
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| Reference | Img144 |
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