Chloe Preston - Page 2

Why dan't someone ask someone to be My Valentine.

9 5/8" 7 7/8"
circa 1910s, 1920s
"dan't" is not a typo, it is the word used
Figure in a tree with lanterns above a Couple

Valentine Greetings ~ To My Valentine In these Blue Forget-Me-Nots, In these Roses too, Read the message Fond and True From my Faithful Heart to you.

5 1/4" x 4 7/8"
circa 1910s, 1920s
Girl and Dog at Fountain

To My Valentine  There may other smiles as sweet And other eyes that brightly shine But none for me can ever be So bright so sweet so dear as thine.

5" x 4 1/8"
circa 1910s, 1920s
Girl with heart by Paper-puff Pillar

To my Valentine In these Blue Forget-Me-Nots, In these Roses too, Read the message Fond and True From my Faithful Heart to you.

7 1/4" x 7 1/4" 
circa 1910s, 1920s
Couple with Umbrellas

Kind and Tender, Fond and True I will always be to you.

8 1/4" x 6 3/4"
dated 1924
Tunnel of Love

To My Valentine.  This little card I Send to you, To tell you I Continue true.

4 3/4" x 2 1/2" x 1 3/4"
circa 1910s, 1920s
Girl with Doll in Front of Fireplace

To My Valentine  My heart is red Your eyes are blue My love for you Sweet and True.

9 7/8" x 7 3/4"
circa 1910s, 1920s
Smoking Man in the Moon with Couple and Dog and Cat below

Preston's cards are made in Germany and feature embossing.  Small tags of text are frequently attached to the paper-puff.  Figures are often accompanied by distinctive cats and dogs.  Her birds are also very characteristic and are regularly included in the rich detailing she creates in her scenes.


You'll find some of the same figures repeated in pull-downs and as walker cards.  Most of the cards I've found that have been hand-dated or in date-stamped envelopes bear dates from the 1920s, with a few from the late 1910s.  As noted on page 1 of Cloe Preston, her cards never bear her signature so they can only be identified via her style of illustration and the type of cards she was fond of creating.

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