TAKE FLIGHT on Valentine's Day

This first card has 1951 written on it in pencil and was published by Hallmark.

This second card, one of my favorites, has no date, but I'm assuming it's late 30s to 40s.

Here we go SIDE-TO-SIDE with our Valentines

And a few more Valentine cards in anticipation of Valentine's Day. Now remember, I don't support the whole idea of what the day has become...I just love the variety of cards that have been produced through the years.

Here are two mechanical secretary cards. I believe this first is making copies. The second is using a dictaphone. Each was made in Germany early in the 20th-Century.

And here we have Clarabell the Cow, a Disney character. She too is a mechanical valentine. She moves her head from side-to-side. Let's just say her head is hanging on my a thread and is now in a permanent brace. That's what happens when you get old. Arthritis in the neck.

This is obviously the Scarecrow and Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz though there are no markings indicating it was an official item affiliated with the movie.

A few more pieces of Valentine ephemera tomorrow.

And here's a post I did last year about a great Valentine ephemera book put out by Taschen. You can see more about the book by clicking on the first book in my Amazon list to the left.

A whole LOTTA LOVIN'

I present to you a whole lotta ephemera lovin' through the early part of the last century.

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Card dates from 1907.

Animated card. Sorry, just don't have time to do an animated version, but the fellow moves his arm up and down. Fickle fellow with twins? Published by Carrington Co., Chicaco, Ill.

Seriously, what is this guys problem? What is he looking for? A true love or a housekeeper? Such a romantic. Kick him in the keister and send him on his way.

From Gibson, probably in the late 1930s to 4os. Yes, yes...separate beds. Well at least they aren't sitting in separate bathtubs ala that stupid Cialis commercial.