Remember Me, Marvelous 19th Century Hand-beaded Folk Art Love Token Needle Book enamel painted What you see is exactly

What you see is exactly what you'll get

early 20th I would think

and stable and fairly sturdy

It still has its original string

set against these fantastic endpapers hand-colored with thousands of yellow squares

Remember Me, Marvelous 19th Century Hand-beaded Folk Art Love Token Needle Book enamel painted What you see is exactlySo 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