More than a century ago, people massively sent Valentine's greeting cards to their loved ones. The postcard market was booming. While the custom of sending Valentine's cards in February has been declining for decades, our need to express our feelings to significant others is still here. Let's find a bit of inspiration in vintage Valentines by Samuel Loren Schmucker, one of the greatests postcard artists in history.

Message of Love ...

Your voice in laughter or in Song,

Bolds in its spell the whole day long

One who would say "The World is mine!

If you would be my Valentine"

Messages come in different forms. So are the messengers.

Making dozens and dozens of postcard designs year after year was probably psychologically demanding, but Samuel Schmucker always managed to reuse the same ideas in fresh ways and obviously kept his sense of humor as well. The next series of his Valentine's greetings successfully combines romance with sports! Word puns are a cherry on top of these great designs.

You make a football of my heart,

And upon my soul,

If we should never be apart,

I'd known I'd reached the "Goal"!

My heart's a golf ball for your "game

You always with me "score"

If I could only win this "match",

You'd "tease" my heart no more.

My sweetheart has a pretty wit

In either rain or shine,

Upon her dainty "bait" I bit,

The heart she's caught is mine!

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