Be My Valentine

This card is embossed and gilted. Soft aqua and mauve colors approximate the embossed flowers. A swooping turtledove delivers a red heart.

Loving Greeting

Two doves surround a barefoot angel carrying a satchel filled with valentines and a sprig of forget-me-not blossoms. Standing in a pastoral setting, the angel holds a yellow envelope with red sealing wax. Forget-me-nots are scattered on the ground around the angel and an urn holding large pink roses sits on a brick wall behind her.

Sent from Beckie with Best regards on 1910 from Nashville, Tenn in February 11 pm 1910.

To My Valentine

Sent from Grace Carpenter to Mildred. This is one post card which seems to have been hand delivered because there is no postage or postmark on the card.

Three angels are placed around the sentiment:
"I send a heart with roses fair
to shade it from all trouble;
And Love shall give it all his care
When you have made it double."

Copyright E. Nash.

Love's Greetings

Roses and violets in language of flowers means love, rural happiness (yellow violet), and faithfulness (blue violet). This post card was sent from Bessie to Mildred in 1910.

It's Orful Being in Love

This valentine post card has a little mystery to it. On the picture side, you can see what is left of two erased words. Written over the boy, is the name Alexander. Written over the girl is the name Mildred. So, we need to figure out, did Alexander write these words and then erase them before the card was sent? Or did Mildred receive the post card and then erase the names so her sisters wouldn't tease her?

Sent February 12, 1917 from Lancaster Ohio to Mildred from Alexander Brenner.
Card is Whitney Made, Worchester, Mass.

Clever Message in the Looking Glass

This message is for you, my dear--
Your looking glass will make it clear.

This card was designed with a clever hidden message in a looking glass. The message is written backwards. If you look in the mirror you will decipher the message:
"Won't you be my sweetheart?"

One angel delivers a post card to the woman looking in the mirror while another angel holds the mirror.

The message on the correspondence side says, " Dear Edna. Be a good girl and I will bring you something home. From Helena

Printed in Germany. Serie No. 30 Sent June 19, 1911 at 9 a.m. from Buckeye Lake, Ohio

Love's Greeting to My Valentine

Printed in Germany. Sent February 13, 1910. Series No. 1113. Embossed.
The boy holds a wishbone in his right hand and the young girl holds a bouquet. The socks of both the boy and girl fall endearingly around their ankles.

Blue forget-me-nots rim the perimeter of a textured blue heart in front of which the boy and girl stand. In the Victorian language of flowers, the forget-me-not signified true love.

With True Love to My Valentine

This postcard was sent to Mildred from Aunt Hattie in 1913. The hearts are pealized red with thin layer simulating gold applied as gilding on the tan areas.

My Air-Ship is Light Valentine

This card pictures a lighter-than-air craft with four main parts: passenger compartment, propulsion system, a fabric covered stucture containing a lighter-than-air gas, and the steering mechanism. The first air-ship was invented in 1900.

The passenger is cupid.
The sentiment:
My Valenine think of me.
My air-ship is light,
my heart is free,
Young Cupid shall bear my love to the.

This card was postmarked February 13, 1910, 2:30 pm and sent to Edna, 1316 Summit St., City.

This is an embossed card. Printed in Germany. Series No 1035. Copyright 1909.

St. Valentine's Letter Box

This post card was printed in Germany. Postage for this postcard was once cent domestic and two cents foreign. The reverse side of the postcard has directions: This side for correspondence/ The address to be written on this side.

Design copyrighted. John Winsch. 1911

Welcome to Vintage Valentines

We have a collection of vintage valentines. My plan is to post them as we approach Valentine's Day. These cards are part of a collection sent to my grandmother and her sister when they were little girls. One is addressed to "Baby Edna." Dates on the post marks are from 1910 and 1911. Some of the addresses are wonderfully sweet. These were sent at a time when one only had to write "City" or "Local" and the post office knew that meant Columbus!