Remember Me, Marvelous 19th Century Hand-beaded Folk Art Love Token Needle Book enamel painted (There is a bit of

(There is a bit of wiggle to it

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

how could I resist this little watercolor portrait of Marie Antoinette

with the only difference being the name printed on the box

It still has its original string

Remember Me, Marvelous 19th Century Hand-beaded Folk Art Love Token Needle Book enamel painted (There is a bit ofSo 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