Charm Our Eyes! Scarce and Marvelous Riedel, Nuremberg Mechanical Valentine c. 1830s Shaw & Nodder (Like an icon of the

(Like an icon of the delta between perception and reality

that it was made quite a long time ago

) The crosses have come loose of the bases such that--but virtue of the stopped being lost--the whole scene can be rearranged more or less as desired using a long

tapering gracefully to the tail

Though I am not entirely certain what that might be

Charm Our Eyes! Scarce and Marvelous Riedel, Nuremberg Mechanical Valentine c. 1830s Shaw & Nodder (Like an icon of theAmazing! I love going to Brimfield, but occasions of finding true treasures digging through boxes in far corners happens less and less and less. But then this, and a second early mechanical valentine also listed today the sorts of lucky finds that keeps me ever hopeful. This is quite a rare one, an early mechanical valentine, published by Riedel in Nuremberg, Germany, for English export, 1830s. I have found one reference to this particular valentine,