I took a few photos with a 10 3/8" tall doll inside for scale
I've become quite a fan of late 19th century punch paper embroideries
dates to the second half of the 19th century and I believe is most likely British
and it took me quite a while to determine its origin
I used one piece of archival tape to mount it to a piece of white board and put it in this old carved wooden frame that I think suits it really nicely: 13 1/4" x 11 1/2"
For Get Me Not, Charming c. Early 20th C. Folk Art Spruce Gum Box antique watercolor of ducks I took a few photosFound in Tennessee but probably Maine in origin, this is a c. early 20th century book shaped spruce gum box. (More below re. spruce gum boxes). You know I love a book shaped anything, and love tokens of all sorts, and naive drawings too, and this is all rolled into one, with a horseshoe and flowers and wonderful spelling of "For get," too! Associated with logging and lumbering activities, spruce gum boxes, also known as gum books, were usually carved