Remember Me, Marvelous 19th Century Hand-beaded Folk Art Love Token Needle Book miniature painted box The images here are a

The images here are a bit yellow-pinker than the actual drawing

There are a couple of hairline cracks on the the palette side that run all the way through the wood and which look to have been carefully repaired some time ago

but quite a tender feeling thing whatever the case

picture frames

beaks and bellies

Remember Me, Marvelous 19th Century Hand-beaded Folk Art Love Token Needle Book miniature painted box The images here are aSo many good things rolled into one little package: a token of love friendship, portrait of place, and hand sewn needle book pin keep all at once, with white house right out of a schoolgirl sampler on front, and monogram and flower (or fruit?) with garland on reverse (to my eye evincing a gravestone, and so seeming something of a momento mori too) all laboriously rendered in tiny glass seed beads, sewn on one by one. I have total love for this very