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Valentine! I'm sure that there will never be a TASTIER DISH than you for me!

5 1/2" x 7 1/2"
circa 1940s, 1950s 
 Mechanical Flat
 by A-Meri-Card
 made in USA
 marked T-199

Oh Fudge! Be My Valentine.

3 1/4" x 5 1/4"
circa 1920s 
Flat

Valentine Greetings ~ My heart BEETS for you!

3 1/4" x 2 7/8" (3 1/4" x 5 5/8" opened)
circa 1920s
Single Fold

This is no BALONEY. You're my One and Only ~ Valentine.

mechanical
made in USA

marked U-715-1

A-Meri-Card
made in USA

You Can Cook up all My Sweets Valentine.

2 3/8" x 5"
circa 1940s, 1950s
made in USA

I'm Gonna POP the Question ~ ~ Will You be my Valentine?

circa 1950s, 1960s
made in USA

A Date with you is like a Cake ~ Sweet to have but Hard to Make My Valentine!

2 7/8" x 4" (8" open)
circa 1930s/1940s
single fold

For my Valentine
My heart is yours my Valentine.

4 5/8" x 3" (4 5/8" x 6" opened)
circa 1920s/1930s
made in USA

 Just SODA You'll Know YOU'RE MY VALENTINE!

2 7/8" x 4 3/8"
circa 1940s/1950s

HOT DOG I'd RELISH having you for my Valentine!

  circa 1950s, 1960s

A Peachy Idea... Be My Valentine.

3 3/8" x 4 3/4"
1930s
Flat
made in USA

 To My Sweetheart What flavor D'you favor? Peach for mine! It makes me think of My Valentine.  

6 1/4" x 4 1/2"
circa 1930s
Mechanical Flat
made in USA

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It will RING my heart if you refuse to be My Valentine

3" x 5 3/8"
circa 1920s, 1930s
Mechanical Flat
I suspect this card is the work of Mary Huber Hays, daughter of Margaret G. Hays and niece of Grace Drayton

 Be my Pet

2 1/2" x 4"
dated 1932
Mechanical Flat

My FURst Appeal Be My Valentine.

8" x 2" flat (about 4" tall when assembled)
circa 1930s
Standing Fold to Assemble Card

My Valentine A jig-saw puzzle's lots of fun, When two hearts beat just like one.

made in USA
Flat

To My Valentine

5 1/4" x 3 3/8"
German Made

You Look Sweet Enough to Eat! Please be my Valentine!

11" tall (with extended neck) x 5 3/4"
dated 1950
made in USA

Do you get my DRIFT...?...I want you for my Valentine.

3 1/4" x 3 7/8"
dated 1939
made in USA

To One I Love.

circa 1930s
mechanical
Eyes Move

My Valentine ~ Love's Old Sweet Song

4 5/8" x 3 5/8"
circa 1920s, 1930s
Flat with Folded Detail

Can I PURR-SWADE you to be My Valentine?

3 1/4" x 5 1/4"
circa 1930s
Pop-Up
made in USA

Be Mine. I Like Looking at U.

6" x 2"
circa 1950s 
Mechanical Flat
 made in USA

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What makes us different from the animals?

New work from Michael Ballou.

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valentine

464 Seneca Ave. Ridgewood NY

valentinegallery.blogspot.com

One day, the fish crawled out of the swamp. They had pairs of eyes, dark eyes, and large teeth. Over time, of course, the temperature would drop, and the fish would grow hair. Their feet would grow hooves and claws. They would bellow and groan and populate the earth. And soon they were on pleasure cruises, slipping away from the ballroom to woo each other in the salt air up on deck, the ancient, gray-green sea stretching endlessly under the moonlight. What next? Perhaps nothing was ever next and humans are still lost in transition from microbe to beast to sentient aethete. We are still trying to leave the swamp, but we don’t know what limbs we need for the next step, as it were.

Is that so? asked the princess, her glassy eyes reflecting the spray of purple asters she held in her hand. I believe I should grow some sort of fins right between my two cerebral hemispheres. I think that I should swim into my synapses.

Don’t you mean your sinuses, laughed the handsome swain at her side.

She frowned and broke his head off — snap!— just like that. She peered down his neck. There were no fins inside, or anything else. But drifting out the chimney that used to be his neck was a fine mist — his narrative entrails now liberated, creating a bewildering perfume that spread across the garden like regret. From on high, the beasts looked down: golden calves and portentous ravens, flowered elephants and sacred wolves. Hollow-eyed creatures all, they uttered low cries as they breathed in the fractured stories of those who had passed their time among the living.

Kurt Hoffman

Michael Ballou is a visual artist who works in diverse media, including film, installation, performance and sculpture, and has a history of organizing events that foster interaction between artists. In recent years, he has exhibited at the David Zwirner Gallery, Pierogi 2000 Gallery, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Xavier Hufkens Gallery, the Kunsthalle (Vienna), among others.