Valentine Card: Vintage 1950s, Boy & Girl with Lawn Mower, Unused, A-Meri-Card, Ephemera

A boy mows the lawn as a girl watches on, declaring “I Love You Mower and Mower.” Few valentines commit to a pun quite so wholeheartedly.

• Maker: A-Meri-Card
• Materials: Cardstock, fold-out die-cut
• Dimensions: Unfolded 6.75 × 4 inches; folded approx. 4 × 3.5 inches
• Origin: USA
• Era: Vintage 1950s
• Condition: Excellent vintage condition, New Old Stock — unused and never folded, with no writing or issues; no envelope. Please review photos closely before purchasing, as all sales are final.

Built around a “Let's Cut Up” theme, this fold-out die-cut card is a perfect example of the pun-driven humor that filled mid-century valentine boxes. Never folded or sent, it survives in New Old Stock condition, with bright colors and crisp die-cut edges.

A fun, punny find for a greeting card collector, or a lighthearted piece for arts and crafts and vintage valentine displays.

A-Meri-Card has one of the more intriguing backstories in American greeting cards. The name appears on cards well before American Greetings of Cleveland filed its trademark in January 1960, and at least some 1940s A-Meri-Card pieces, including a 1947 punch-out party book, carry markings from the American Colortype Company, a large commercial color printer based in Chicago and New York. American Greetings carried the brand forward and kept it in production into at least the 1980s. Most surviving examples date to the 1950s and 1960s, and their die-cut designs and cheerful puns have made them favorites with collectors of mid-century ephemera.

Pair it with our other A-Meri-Card fold-up valentines to build a matching set.