Historians credit Richard Cadbury, son of chocolatier John Cadbury, with the invention in 1861 of heart-shaped boxes filled with chocolates.
The box – after the candy was consumed – was intended to store sentimental love letters or locks of hair, which were common practices in the Victorian era.
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