Valentine Card: Vintage 1960s, School Graduate, A-Meri-Card, Ephemera

A boy in his cap and gown declares, “You're the Head of the Class with Me, Valentine!” A small card with a big compliment, still signed in pencil by its sender.

• Maker: A-Meri-Card
• Materials: Paper
• Dimensions: Approximately 3.75 × 2.5 inches
• Origin: USA
• Era: Vintage 1960s
• Condition: Good vintage condition, used, with pencil writing; no envelope. Please review photos closely before purchasing, as all sales are final.

Compact enough to slip into a classroom valentine box, this flat card captures the schoolyard humor of the era's valentine exchanges. The pencil writing marks it as a card that was actually given, a small piece of someone's school-days history.

A small, sweet find for a greeting card collector, or a fun addition to a school- or graduation-themed valentine collection.

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.

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