POSTCARD

Date1908

Dimensions13.8 x 8.7 cm

Object numberHF.70.1965.2

DescriptionA rectangular shaped postcard. The left side of the card contains a dark pink heart shape. There are printed instructions above the heart which read "Moisten the lips and impress them on the red heart". The instructions continue in the heart: "THIS SUBSTANCE/IS GUARANTEED/NON-INJURIOUS", and below the heart: "With what pleasure and hoy I could kiss my dear boy,/But there! what's the good of me wishing./In the corner you'll see a kiss, that's from me,/But it's you that I'd rather be "kissing."/W.W.". The right side of the card has a faint kiss mark in the center of a floral arch featuring a kneeling cupid figure on the right side. There is a handwritten message in ink on the back of the card that is mostly illegible after being scratched over in pencil and the central section worn away.

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