Valentine postcard with cherub and forget-me-nots – Vintage Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
A window into the past: Valentine postcard with cherub and forget-me-nots, preserved in this vintage postcard. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Valentine postcard with cherub and forget-me-nots
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Cherubs and forget-me-nots make this card a typical product of the early twentieth-century Valentine trade, when printers in Germany, Britain and the United States turned out millions of small embossed cards for the holiday. The forget-me-not, a small blue flower, had long carried a sentiment of constancy, so pairing it with a winged infant Cupid let senders express affection without writing much at all. Cards like this were often mailed with only a brief signature or a line of verse, and the lithographed borders and gilt details were meant to be kept in a scrapbook or sweetheart's box. Look closely at the printing to see the layered colors and the soft, almost painterly shading that mass-produced cards of the period were known for.
| Original scan | 515 × 816 px |
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| Reference | Img129 |
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