Remember Me, Marvelous 19th Century Hand-beaded Folk Art Love Token Needle Book miniature painted box where it was watercolored by

where it was watercolored by hand

with surface scratches and little dings to the wood all over

though I'm not entirely certain what it once held

tiny but terrific

I think it might be it

Remember Me, Marvelous 19th Century Hand-beaded Folk Art Love Token Needle Book miniature painted box where it was watercolored bySo 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