Category 8: Communication Objects➔Documentary Objects➔Other Documents➔Correspondence➔Card, Greeting➔Valentine
Artifact
2019-07-12-01-F
circa 1925
A valentine card printed in Saxony, Germany. It is mint green with gold accents, a red ribbon and a pressed image of a house behind a heart bearing golden tree. There is also ' Valentine Greetings" printed in gold under the image. When opened there are two pages of green construction paper. On one of them is printed a valentines poem. " I WOULD NEVER DARE TO TELL MY LOVE. FOR I NEVER COULD FIND A WAY.BUT I'M SURE THIS VALENTINE WILL PROVE THAT I THINK FAR MORE THAN I SAY. " The last page has a handwritten message of " From your Mother to cassy " While the back of the card says made in Saxony. Belonged to donor's grandma Annie Morley.
carboard, construction paper, ink, lead, polyester satin.
Width: 5 1/8 in.;
Height: 3 3/8 in.;
Notes: card
Notes: card