Cupid melting a heart Valentine postcard with verse – Antique Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Cupid melting a heart Valentine postcard with verse comes to life in this vintage postcard, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Cupid melting a heart Valentine postcard with verse
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A Cupid melting a heart is the central motif here, with the verse printed beneath it giving the card its sentimental message. Valentine postcards like this one became popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when inexpensive color printing and cheap postal rates let people send affectionate notes to sweethearts, friends and family. The pairing of a playful winged Cupid with a rhyming couplet was a standard formula of the era, and its blend of pictorial charm and short verse reflects how the holiday was commercialized as a mass-market custom. Looking closely at the lettering and layout can reveal a good deal about how these cards were designed and sold.
| Original scan | 812 × 525 px |
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| Reference | Img148 |
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