Lovingly Crafted Antique Needlebook with Homespun Checked Fabric Cover antique spillikins I'm a sucker for a

I'm a sucker for a barrel shaped box

The name of the species--in this case it looks to be "Russ dagueletti" is incised on the bottom of the piece

I'm always on the lookout for object that might inspire creativity

which itself bore the influence of Staffordshire and Rockingham lions from the mid-18th c

I believe it was likely made as a tourist souvenir

Lovingly Crafted Antique Needlebook with Homespun Checked Fabric Cover antique spillikins I'm a sucker for aThis little needle book make have seen better days, but it's so sweet, and invested with such lovely details, I think well worth preserving. I really love the use of black line on the homespun red and white and black checked fabric that covers it, and then lovely pale yellow embroidery along the edges of the two lay inside end pages with fancy knots binding them together. The three pages for needles are wool, the largest center of them red with pretty