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Unusual vintage Valentine's Day cards

Mark Frauenfelder at 8:38 am Mon, Feb 13, 2012

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Artist Mitch O'Connell opened his ephemera vault to find his sub-collection of unusual vintage Valentine's Day cards. Below, a small sampling from his post.

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The Top 100 Most Strange, Odd, Perplexing and Unintentionally Funny Vintage Valentine Cards EVER!

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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  • PhosPhorious

    That first card.  Is. . .  is that guy fucking s cow?

    • http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/ Stefan Jones

       Please. That’s a young lady. And we really can’t tell what’s going on. Although the fox in the lower left corner seems to be about to be thoroughly sick about what he is seeing.

    • Ito Kagehisa

      Cross-dressing, erotic strangulation, bestiality, sadism… there’s a whole lot going on there.

  • absimiliard

    Yeah, I think he is….

    -abs is disturbed by this, even more so given the cutesy-kitschy art-style used

  • lilomar

    Some of these are obviously intentional.

    Your grandparents loved a good raunchy joke just as much as you do.

    • Marktech

      Some of these are obviously intentional.

      Just look at it.

  • Miss Cellania

    What is really perplexing is that the linked post is named The Top 100 Most Strange, Odd, Perplexing and Unintentionally Funny Vintage Valentine Cards EVER!
    and there’s only 34 of them.  

    • http://nelc.livejournal.com/ NelC

       They’re leaving those slots open for future cards.

  • monopole

    http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-N2Xx2gpj3_c/TzULkca8OuI/AAAAAAAAIfI/BwiH36oGFEc/s1600/v19.jpg
    Shades of Women in Refigerators
    http://www.unheardtaunts.com/wir/
    Is this the Valentine’s Day card the Green Lantern sends?

  • tubacat

    Wondering why he put his url on the bottom of each image. To me, it kind of implies he “owns” or made the images -  maybe he owns the cards (or just found the images), but it seems odd to “mark” them this way…

    Great collection, though!