Remember Me, Marvelous 19th Century Hand-beaded Folk Art Love Token Needle Book miniature painted box tiny but terrific

tiny but terrific

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

though I'm not entirely certain what it once held

with surface scratches and little dings to the wood all over

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

Remember Me, Marvelous 19th Century Hand-beaded Folk Art Love Token Needle Book miniature painted box tiny but terrificSo 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