Four Hearts from Eugene to Charlie, Antique PA Folded Paper Love Token Victorian drawing Nine pin preceded ten pin

Nine pin preceded ten pin bowling

6 3/4" x 3 11/16

I’d frame them

and spent time living in China and Japan

Knife 5 3/4" l x 1 7/8" w at handle

Four Hearts from Eugene to Charlie, Antique PA Folded Paper Love Token Victorian drawing Nine pin preceded ten pinFirst of all, I love that this valentine was gifted from a Eugene (Britzer) to a Charlie (Kulp, I believe). Second, I love it because I like to think Eugene was applying his Froebel kindergarten paper folding skills to making it (the paper from which it was made certainly suggests that was so). But the addition of those four perfect red hearts made it his own. And what a perfectly resolved thing which could be a Christmas time love token too! Small