Remember Me, Marvelous 19th Century Hand-beaded Folk Art Love Token Needle Book enamel painted With a little googling I

With a little googling I turned up one other example (dating to the 1920s-30

and stable and fairly sturdy

rust and general wear as evident in photos

with the only difference being the name printed on the box

What you see is exactly what you'll get

Remember Me, Marvelous 19th Century Hand-beaded Folk Art Love Token Needle Book enamel painted With a little googling ISo 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