GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN: VINEGAR VALENTINES...
Vinegar valentines were a type of insulting cards. They are decorated with a caricature, and featured below an insulting poem. Ostensibly given on Valentine's Day, the caricature and poem is about the "type" that the recipient belongs to—spinster, floozy, dude, scholar, etc. They enjoyed popularity from the 1840s to the 1940s. These cynical, sarcastic, often mean-spirited greeting cards were first produced in America as early as the 1840s by a variety of printing companies... READ MORE HERE.
TO SEE A NEAT LITTLE COLLECTION OF VINEGAR VALENTINES COURTESY OF FLICKR FRIEND ALAN MAYS, CLICK HERE.
TO SEE THE LAST EDITION OF GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN: FROM 1958, THE SEARS "NYLON" CHRISTMAS TREE, CLICK HERE.
some of these are really funny.
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