Mid 19th Century Glass Cased Forget Me Not with Silk Flowers (Flowers Untethered) please sign with the central image including

with the central image including several vignettes occurring in a shop of some sort accompanied by the phrase "Keep Thy Shop and Thy Shop Will Keep Thee" (another reason why this one won me

Copyright 1875

A terrific old pair of black and white painted oversized carved solid wood dice

with no tears or folds or other issues at all

in that amazing lettering

Mid 19th Century Glass Cased Forget Me Not with Silk Flowers (Flowers Untethered) please sign with the central image includingLots 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