GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN: VINEGAR VALENTINES.

Back by popular demand: Everything Croton continues its very popular series GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN....and so without further ah-doo...

GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN: VINEGAR VALENTINES...updated in 2026

Vinegar valentines were a type of insulting card---usually decorated with a caricature and an insulting poem featured below. Click on the image.

They were once all the rage but are largely forgotten now. 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....READ MORE HERE.

Some years ago, The Cornelia Cotton Gallery in the Upper Village had a few of this type for sale, along with other more traditional vintage Valentine's Day ephemera; the shop is located here.

TO SEE A NEAT LITTLE UPDATED COLLECTION OF VINEGAR VALENTINES COURTESY OF FLICKR FRIEND ALAN MAYS, CLICK HERE.

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