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Vintage card with smudged red heart reading This substance is guaranteed non-injurious along wi ...
Of methods of kissing there are quite a host
Vintage card with smudged red heart reading This substance is guaranteed non-injurious along with text outside reading Moisten the lips and impress them on red heart then kiss here written in space with red lip smudges and below is poem reading Of methods of kissing there are quite a host but the latest idea is just kissing by post.

Of methods of kissing there are quite a host

Date1907
Names
Format
Medium
Dimensions1Pages, 17 x 10 cm (6 11/16 x 3 15/16 in.)
Language
ProvenanceToronto Reference Library. Arts department
CollectionArts department
Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
Call Number / Accession NumberARTS-PC-597
Depicts red flowers in front of a shiny gold heart. Rhyming verse at bottom.
A valentine greeting
1911
A cherub shoots an arrow into the centre of a heart-shaped target. Purple flowers are behind hi ...
To my valentine
1910
A young woman, framed by a heart, carries a small evergreen tree over her shoulder. The entire ...
Valentine greeting
between 1900 and 1919
A red heart trimmed with blue flowers. A gold arrow pierces it through. At the centre a woman i ...
My valentine
between 1800 and 1899
A woman in a very fancy, puffy pink dress stands in a garden as the sun sets. Behind her a huge ...
To my sweetheart
approximately 1932
Rhyming text is written in the centre and surrounded by a decorative orange border. This item i ...
I love you
between 1930 and 1939
A flat card. Two children sit in the branch of a tree with sky and pastel clouds behind them. T ...
Could anything be nicer
between 1883 and 1893
An image of a girl wearing a yellow and purple dress with a red flower pattern. Behind her is a ...
You have so many hearts to choose from
between 1930 and 1939
A boy is pictured standing in a patch of grass holding a card. Beside him, framed by a heart, i ...
Valentine greetings
between 1930 and 1939
Two cherubs in a field of purple flowers toss a pair of hearts in the air between each other. A ...
This ball of love
between 1900 and 1919
A boy dressed in blue holds a blue bouquet of flowers. He is framed by a blue heart made of flo ...
To my valentine
between 1900 and 1919
A smiling boy posing with his arms akimbo is surrounded by hearts. 
Always merry and bright
between 1900 and 1919