Hallmark began offering Valentine’s Day cards in the early 1910s, with Valentines added to the company’s inventory and being mass‑produced around 1913, and the first Hallmark‑printed Valentine cards appearing on store shelves by 1916.

Hallmark began offering Valentine’s Day cards in…

Quick Scoop

If your post title is “hallmark began offering valentine's day cards i…”, the clean, factually solid completion is:

  • “Hallmark began offering Valentine’s Day cards in 1913.”
    • Hallmark (then Hall Brothers) added Valentines to its inventory in 1913 as part of its new greeting card line.
* The company then started printing its **own** card designs in 1915, with the first fully Hallmark‑printed Valentine’s cards hitting store shelves in 1916.

So, depending on how precise you want to be:

  • For a punchy headline or trivia style:
    • “Hallmark began offering Valentine’s Day cards in 1913.”
  • For a slightly more detailed, historically precise line:
    • “Hallmark began offering Valentine’s Day cards in 1913 and first placed its own printed Valentine cards on store shelves in 1916.”

A tiny bit of backstory (for flavor)

  • J.C. Hall started selling Valentine postcards as early as 1910, before Hallmark formally moved into greeting cards.
  • As postcards fell out of fashion, the company shifted to folded greeting cards and, by 1913, Valentines were part of that lineup.
  • By 1916, the full Hallmark‑designed and printed Valentine’s Day cards you’d recognize were on sale in stores, helping cement the modern card‑giving tradition.

You can use that context in your “Quick Scoop” section as a 1–2 sentence mini‑story about how Hallmark helped popularize Valentine’s card‑giving in the early 20th century.📝

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