Valentine Card: Vintage 1950s, Girl Artist Drawing Hearts, Unused, A-Meri-Card, Ephemera

In her yellow artist's smock, a girl paints red hearts and hopes you'll “Please Be Mine!” A bright, cheerful card that has never been folded.

• Maker: A-Meri-Card
• Materials: Cardstock, fold-out die-cut
• Dimensions: Unfolded 6 × 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.

Its sentiment, “Wish I could draw our hearts together!”, turns the artist theme into a gentle pun, the kind of wordplay A-Meri-Card did so well. Unused and unfolded, the card keeps its sunny yellow smock and red hearts vivid and its die-cut edges clean.

A sweet find for a greeting card collector, or a lovely 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.