Cupid's Grip Valentine Card 1900s – Cherub Love Message Greeting

The card announces in dramatic cursive, 'I am coming to stay,' yet depicts Cupid, a wide-eyed cherub with reddish-brown curls and tiny wings, apparently packed into a yellow travel bag labeled 'CUPIDS GRIP' and flanked by two red hearts, because subtlety was still decades away from being invented. He's triumphantly waving a note reading 'A MESSAGE FOR HER,' which is either the most romantic thing ever written or the setup to a restraining order. Copyrighted in the 190-somethings by Max Stein of Chicago, this card represents the Edwardian era's complete failure to recognize that a baby emerging from luggage screaming about permanent residence is not, in fact, a love note — it's a hostage situation.