Valentine Card: Vintage 1950s, Boy with Suitcases, Unused, A-Meri-Card, Ephemera

A boy packs his suitcases while a girl looks on, wondering if he's “Looking for a Valentine?” Never folded, this factory-fresh card has waited decades for its answer.

• Maker: A-Meri-Card
• Materials: Cardstock, fold-out die-cut
• Dimensions: Unfolded 6.5 × 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.

Fold-out die-cut valentines like this one were made to be folded, signed, and handed over, so an unfolded example is a genuine survivor. Its colors are still bright and its cut edges crisp, just as they left the printer, and its whimsical travel theme gives it a storybook quality all its own.

A charming pick for a greeting card collector, or a fun, quirky 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.