Vintage Victorian Valentine Card with Love Acrostic Poem

The bubble wand — or what appears to be one, held aloft by a woman in a yellow off-the-shoulder dress — makes blowing bubbles the romantic gesture of choice here, because when you think 'be mine,' you naturally think novelty soap toys. Perched above a heart-shaped wreath of aggressively red roses, she remains serene and slightly detached, as though she's already decided the answer. The acrostic poem inside the rose prison spells out 'WOLFA' with ornate capital letters, which is either a name, a spell, or a cry for help encoded by the designer. The verse itself — 'Will you, won't you, do you, don't you love me, darling Valentine?' — reads less like a love poem and more like the transcript of someone being gently interrogated, and her expression suggests she frankly doesn't care about the outcome.