Over the next few posts I plan to share pictures from an awesome Valentine lot I won on eBay.
The pages they came on were that type of golden, faded scrapbook paper, the kind that is so fragile, a touch will crumble it, not unlike a dried leaf. Beneath each card ( there were Birthday, Christmas and Get Well cards too), someone had written the date in black ink. All of the cards were given and received in the 1930's, but a few have copyright dates from the 1920's...
I absolutely adore these graphics.
This one is a mechanical. By moving the hat, the little girls eyes move back and forth. The recipient of this card pasted it in such a way that the mechanics would still function perfectly.

I just love this one. Inside, a nice little note was written to the recipient, Billy. Its asks teasingly, "Is this a picture of you and Mildred on a picnic?" Little did the author nor Billy know at that time that those words would be broadcast into cyberspace 70 years later!!!

Don't you love it when you come across and old picture or card that has writing in it? Especially when the message is cryptic, an inside joke between old friends, or a shared secret between sisters. Being a sentimental romantic, I am drawn to the mystery of it all.