The Wring is Round It Hath No End, 1856 Ink and Watercolor Love Token Drawing olive tongs Hard to capture in photos

Hard to capture in photos

Met Museum

but it's been so hot

Photos follow the sequence pretty much as it goes

Good overall condition for its age

The Wring is Round It Hath No End, 1856 Ink and Watercolor Love Token Drawing olive tongs Hard to capture in photos"The wring is round It hath no end So is my love To you my friend. Farewell. 1856." How to read that, in those perfectly inked little letters, and not be moved?? And how not to wonder about the nature of that farewell??? I simply do not have the capacity to resist something like this, made all the more special by those two beautifully long fingered hands reaching together at the top of that "wring" to complete the form of a heart with flowers to