HOPE, Amazing 1839 Hand-beaded-on-Every-Surface Folk Art Needle Book + Pin Keep easter basket It appears to me one

It appears to me one would need to drill down through those plugs in order to disassemble the frame should one wish to reframe them--certainly doable but just a note that frames don't readily pull apart

Great ink drawn detailing on the feathers under the read

It is old and weak

she seems as sultry as she does pious

and a faint penciled number at the corner of each suggests they were likely part of a larger series (one sees similar numbering on antique watercolor of flowers

HOPE, Amazing 1839 Hand-beaded-on-Every-Surface Folk Art Needle Book + Pin Keep easter basket It appears to me oneTotal delight finding this one, purchased from a seller in Arizona, whose mother was an avid antique collector. I've been keeping an eagle eye out for early beaded needle books since finding a marvelous one with a house and the phrase "remember me" on it months ago these types of examples, hand beaded with tiny tiny glass seed beads, date to the first half of the 19th century and are scarce but now this is the third I've turned up. And what a charmer