Tiny Buzzing Bees at Hive, Partial But Very Charming Early 19th Century Album Amicorum Needlepoint portraitas and a couple of chips

and a couple of chips to the lacquer--one to the left of the rear hinge

though perhaps a dog and an especially graceful cow

A curious little thing

I purchased this from a favorite antiques shop just over the NH border in Vermont

with small puncture holes in the fabric and a bit of staining but many years of use left in it and still really great looking

Tiny Buzzing Bees at Hive, Partial But Very Charming Early 19th Century Album Amicorum Needlepoint portraitas and a couple of chipsI am guessing that this small, very fine (impossibly so!) needlepoint was once part of an early 19th century German "Album Amicorum" or friendship book a collection of small mementos from friends and family (watercolors, drawings, handwritten messages, and often small needlepoints) of a certain size, housed in a special box. Clearly, much of the paper square it was once mounted to, with gold foil border, is gone but I was so completely taken with the