Gardner B. Jolley's Very Tender Sewing Box Chair for Mother, with Portrait, 1914 remedy recipes and then creamy white paint

and then creamy white paint for the whites of the eyes

swatches are bright and crisp

and in simply perfect condition

dramatic peachy-pink satin lining

framed at the top of this little wall shelf with heart pierced arrow at center is the tintype portrait of handsome mustached man with pink tinted cheeks

Gardner B. Jolley's Very Tender Sewing Box Chair for Mother, with Portrait, 1914 remedy recipes and then creamy white paintA tender and heartfelt thing if I ever did see one. Surely it is Nellie Leora, mother to Gardner (I take that as a G), whose photograph is framed with wreath of braided threads at the center of chair back captured seated in a Victorian wicker chair, with book open in her hands, and very intense gaze! The rest of the chair seems all about Gardner, who embroidered the date on one side, 1914; her own age on the other, 24; and her name front and center,