Most of these were made by Jonathan King and his mother in an Essex Road workshop. The cards themselves were made from paper lace and different print scraps, with some hand painted illustrations. They produced a LOT of cards in honour of Valentine's Day, a lot of which feature the common 'romantic' elements of birds, flowers, hearts and winged cherubs, but they also produced a number of 'rejection' cards that vary in message and design, with varying degrees of specific and insulting or novelty messages
The Museum of London holds over 1,700 of these cards, and the rest of the collection can be found in the Hallmark Card Company archives in Kansas City.
View the complete collection at the Museum of London HERE!
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