Searching through my files, the attached is as close as I could get to a Valentine's card. It dates back to the late Nineteenth Century.
This card is one of several that Woolson Spice Co (Toledo, Ohio) inserted into each one pound package of Lion Coffee beans. The cards are referred to as "trade cards", probably because people collected and traded them. I was fortunate to find a few of them in a thrift store several years ago. The cards are still being advertised on the Internet for around $15.00 each.
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