Some Time, in Some Way, Will Come Your Wedding Day, Handmade Friendship Token of Sorts with Fabulous Fancy Lettering antique advertisement I found this lovely old

I found this lovely old burl this week too

Sold as found in an antique adirondack frame with wood backing

I am no an expert on Santos

and because it's nice to keep things together

but the bandeau just painted on

Some Time, in Some Way, Will Come Your Wedding Day, Handmade Friendship Token of Sorts with Fabulous Fancy Lettering antique advertisement I found this lovely oldI found this in Gloucester, one town over from Essex, MA where it originated a good hundred years ago at least. And a quick search turns up numerous generations of John H. Wilkins's from in and around Essex county, so surely the John who "composed" this had plenty of friends from Essex. Whether created immediately in advance of this particular lovely friend's wedding as a wedding gift, or in the days of just imagining it, I don't know for sure though