Beware of Modern Love, Old Punch Paper Needlepoint, Framed antique arts and crafts vase 5" tall x 3" wide

5" tall x 3" wide and deep

and one silver with deep blue lilies and green stalks

Plus all pack up neatly into the slide top wooden box

and in either case who they were

is really striking from a distance

Beware of Modern Love, Old Punch Paper Needlepoint, Framed antique arts and crafts vase 5" tall x 3" wideAs I've said before, the diversity of messages on these old punch perforated paper needlepoints just kills me, and here is a perfect case in point! I'd love to know exactly the context in which this one was stitched perhaps by a young woman recently betrayed? Or by her mother, sending her a message?! Whatever the case, quite a thing, made all the better by the period at the end of the phrase; no equivocation there! And with a loss to the lower left