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

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

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

early 20th I would think

rust and general wear as evident in photos

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