Friendship, Love and Truth, valentine card with eye and heart – Historic Print
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A window into the past: Friendship, Love and Truth, valentine card with eye and heart, preserved in this historic image. 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. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.
Friendship, Love and Truth, valentine card with eye and heart
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A valentine card built around an eye and a heart is an unusual pairing, and the title, "Friendship, Love and Truth," suggests the sender wanted the card to say more than a simple romantic greeting. Victorian-era valentines of this kind often used sentimental imagery and short verses to express affection, and the eye motif may point to a message about being seen or trusted. Cards like this were typically hand-colored or printed on cheap paper and exchanged between friends, relatives and sweethearts, so they survive as a window into how people expressed feeling in the 19th century.
| Original scan | 2,112 × 1,500 px · prints to 7 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | VAL-53 |
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