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

how could I resist this little watercolor portrait of Marie Antoinette

but I think is so much better for the extra "f

and stable and fairly sturdy

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

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