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Vinegar valentines are cards that would be sent to scorn the recipient. Popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, these cards usually feature caricature portraits of figures demonstrating failings such as vanity, laziness or stupidity.

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- Must Settle Down Sometime, But Won't Throw Himself Away Too Early
- 'Must Settle Down Sometime, But Won't Throw Himself Away Too Early'. Vinegar Valentine's card, late 19th century.
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- Must Settle Down Sometime, But Won't Throw...
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- Can You Refuse Me?
- 'Can You Refuse Me?'. Vinegar Valentine's card, late 19th century.
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- Vinegar valentine's card showing a man wearing a...
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- Don't Imagine Anyone Will Take You for a Gentleman
- 'Don't Imagine Anyone Will Take You for a Gentleman'. Vinegar Valentine's card, late 19th century.
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- Don't Imagine Anyone Will Take You for a...
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- How Doth the Little Spelling Bee, Amuse an Idle Hour
- 'How Doth the Little Spelling Bee, Amuse an Idle Hour'. Vinegar Valentine's card, c1875.
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- How Doth the Little Spelling Bee, Amuse an Idle...
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- Public Domain / CC0
- Size: 1.17MB
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- Pride Will Have a Fall
- 'Pride Will Have a Fall'. Vinegar Valentine's card, c1875.
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- Pride Will Have a Fall. Vinegar Valentine's card,...
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- How Gratifying to be the Envy of Our Friends
- 'How Gratifying to be the Envy of Our Friends'. Vinegar Valentine's card, c1875.
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- How Gratifying to be the Envy of Our Friends....
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- Pity a Poor Wounded Heart
- 'Pity a Poor Wounded Heart'. Vinegar Valentine's card, c1875.
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- Vinegar Valentine's Card, c1875. Shows a man...
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- Size: 1.22MB
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- Valentine's Card
- Vinegar Valentine's card, c1875.
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- Vinegar Valentine's card, c1875. Shows a woman...
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- Valentine's Card
- Vinegar Valentine's card, c1875.
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- Vinegar Valentine's Card, c1875. Shoes a woman in...
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- Valentine's Card
- Vinegar Valentine's card, c1875.
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- Vinegar Valentine's card, c1875. Shows a drunken...
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- Valentine's Card
- Vinegar Valentine's card, c1875.
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- Vinegar Valentine's card, c1875. Shows a...
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- Valentine's Card
- Vinegar Valentine's card, c1875.
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- Vinegar Valentine's card, c1875. Shows a...
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- Valentine's Card
- Vinegar Valentine's card, c1875.
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- Vinegar Valentine's card, c1875. Shows a middle...
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- A Duck and Geese
- 'A Duck and Geese'. Vinegar Valentine's card, c1875.
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- A Duck and Geese. Vinegar Valentine's card,...
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- Love Among the Roses
- 'Love Among the Roses'. Vinegar Valentine's card, c1875.
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- Love Among the Roses. Vinegar valentine's card,...
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- No Reasonable Offer Refused
- 'No Reasonable Offer Refused'. Vinegar Valentine's card, 19th century.
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- No Reasonable Offer Refused. Vinegar valentine's...
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- Size: 366.23KB
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- Could We But Gaze Unseen
- 'Could We But Gaze Unseen'. Vinegar Valentine's card, late 19th century.
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- Could We But Gaze Unseen. Vinegar valentine's...
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- Write You Down An Ass? Tis Done Sir
- 'Write You Down An Ass? Tis Done Sir'. Vinegar Valentine's card, late 19th century.
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- Write You Down An Ass? Tis Done Sir. Vinegar...
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- A Scolding Woman's Tongue is a Scorpion
- 'A Scolding Woman's Tongue is a Scorpion'. Vinegar Valentine's card, late 19th century.
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- A Scolding Woman's Tongue is a Scorpion. Shows a...
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- Could We See Ourselves as Others See Us
- 'Could We See Ourselves as Others See Us'. Vinegar Valentine's card, late 19th century.
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- Could We See Ourselves as Others See Us. Vinegar...
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- Waiting for an Offer
- 'Waiting for an Offer'. Vinegar Valentine's card, late 19th century.
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- Waiting for an Offer. Vinegar Valentine's card,...
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- Size: 1.07MB
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- Wait a Little Longer
- 'Wait a Little Longer'. Vinegar Valentine's card, late 19th century.
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- Wait a Little Longer. Vinegar Valentine's card,...
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- Size: 841.54KB
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- Are you still nineteen?
- 'Are You Still Nineteen?'. Vinegar Valentine's card, late 19th century.
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- Are you still nineteen? Vinegar Valentine's Card,...
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- Valentine's Card
- Vinegar Valentine's card, late 19th century.
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- Vinegar Valentine's card, 19th century. Shows a...
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- It Isn't Fine Feathers that Make Fine Birds
- 'It Isn't Fine Feathers that Make Fine Birds'. Vinegar Valentine's card, late 19th century.
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- That's all You're Good For
- 'That's All You're Good For'. Vinegar Valentine's card, late 19th century.
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- That's all You're Good For. Vinegar Valentine's...
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- Where Ignorance is Bliss, 'Tis Folly to be Wise
- 'Where Ignorance is Bliss, 'Tis Folly to be Wise'. Vinegar Valentine's card, late 19th century.
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- Where Ignorance is Bliss, 'Tis Folly to be Wise....
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- Card Album
- 'It is Divine to Love, But if We Can't; What Then?'. Vinegar Valentine's card, c1875.
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- It is Divine to Love, But if We Can't; What Then?...
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- Valentine's Card
- Vinegar Valentine's card, c1875.
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- Vinegar Valentine's card, c1875. Shows a man in...
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- Valentine's Card
- Vinegar Valentine's card, c1875.
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- Vinegar valentine's card, c1875. Shows a young...
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- Valentine's Card
- 'Sold Again My Friend; Sold Again'. Vinegar Valentine's card, late 19th century.
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- Sold Again My Friend; Sold Again. Vinegar...
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