Remember Me, Marvelous 19th Century Hand-beaded Folk Art Love Token Needle Book enamel painted It still has its original

It still has its original string

rust and general wear as evident in photos

set against these fantastic endpapers hand-colored with thousands of yellow squares

but I think is so much better for the extra "f

Remember Me, Marvelous 19th Century Hand-beaded Folk Art Love Token Needle Book enamel painted It still has its originalSo 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