First Valentine Card

The left card was for the us market the right card for the british market. Today more than a 150 million valentine s day cards are sold each year.

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The first commercially printed valentine s day card was produced in 1913 by hallmark known as hall brothers at that time.

First valentine card. First valentine s day card for a granddaughter with a pink and white hearts background with a pink ruffled heart in the center brown doggie holding a pink heart in it s mouth below a solid blue background with happy first valentine s day. In addition to the united states valentine s day is celebrated in canada mexico united kingdom france australia denmark and italy. Esther howland of worcester mass published the first american valentine in 1849.

By 1915 the company made all their money from printing and selling valentines day cards and christmas cards. In 1913 hallmark cards produced their first valentine s card representing a key development in the commercialisation of valentine s day. On the evening before valentine was to be executed he is supposed to have written the first valentine card himself addressed to the daughter of his jailer asterius who was no longer blind signing as your valentine.

Valentine cards with a golfing theme 1911. Hallmark first offered valentine s day cards in 1913 and began producing them in 1916. The enterprising howland is credited with starting the valentine s day card industry in the united states growing what started out as a small homemade card business into a thriving enterprise that earned 100 000 in revenues annually.

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