SOLD Early 19th Century Miniature Silk Needlepoint Sampler/Love Token with Dogs and Bird and Flowering Urns tall trees with a pretty amazing line

with a pretty amazing line drawing with numbers that I guess once corresponded to a key detailing the various bugs

The near-black side clearly once showed a message spelled out in pins

get married

I can read "Aug 11" and have found a couple other examples of this wheel out there that show patent dates of Aug

with a nail in one corner holding the cage together

SOLD Early 19th Century Miniature Silk Needlepoint Sampler/Love Token with Dogs and Bird and Flowering Urns tall trees with a pretty amazing lineI paid close to what I'm asking on this one, which is sometimes the case there are things I just need to become the steward of for a bit. How to resist these tiny tiny dogs? Or that tiny yellow bird atop its tiny tree? I could not. The scale of it makes me think of love tokens and early handmade rewards of merit, and indeed this is stitched to a paper backing, which looks to me to bear simply the word "Dear" in ink. That's what I see, anyway. Silk