Just one year after the Uniform Penny Postage, 400,000 valentines were posted throughout England.
Valentine's Day was truly becoming big business.
Cloth and lace Valentine card made by Esther Howland, ca.
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The cards vary from loving to crude and show a different side to the Victorian values that might be expected.
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