Mid 19th Century Glass Cased Forget Me Not with Silk Flowers (Flowers Untethered) please sign One assumes she is tending

One assumes she is tending to German soldiers at the hospital in the background

such that it feels dainty and delicate even while rather graphic--and with a quite dramatic range of motion to our thrusting fellow

but 19th century for sure

reminding me a bit of the Monopoly shoe

in that amazing lettering

Mid 19th Century Glass Cased Forget Me Not with Silk Flowers (Flowers Untethered) please sign One assumes she is tendingLots of tender and lovely very old small things today just the sorts of things that make me the happiest! I don't come across early Victorian cased forget me nots like this one often, but when I do I always scoop them up, finding them completely charming and rather magical feeling like antique reliquaries, but love tokens. And what I especially love about one is the reverse painting of the perimeter glass looking just like pressed sea moss, but in