Antique "A Token of Love" embossed Valentine postcard showing a dark-haired girl in a blue dress with a hair bow reaching up toward a white dove carrying a pink letter, holding a bouquet of pink flowers, in a meadow of pink daisies with an Art Nouveau gray-and-gold frame. Design number 7893 at lower right; back has a multilingual Postkarte / Carte Postale heading and "Made in Germany." Standard size (about 5.5 x 3.5 in), divided back. Used and postally mailed, with light corner and edge wear and a faint pencil name at the bottom of the front.

Postmarked Salem, Ohio, Feb 12, 1909, with a flag machine cancel and a green 1-cent Franklin stamp (1902 series). Addressed to Mary Ester (as written) Burton, Wilson St., Salem, Ohio; no message.

A pretty early Valentine with a dove-messenger theme, from a group of family cards sent to the Burtons of Salem, Ohio.