C. 1830 Folk Art Forget me Not Box with Stencil Painted Velvet Top and Fabulous Interior Mirror old folk art carved shoe and a clean split to

and a clean split to one slide lid (which I have archivilly taped from the underside rather than permanently repair) and one hairline split to one side of one box

I purchased a lot of them from a seller in England

whoever she is

Cyanotype mounted to card

C. 1830 Folk Art Forget me Not Box with Stencil Painted Velvet Top and Fabulous Interior Mirror old folk art carved shoe and a clean split toLots of very tender very old things today just the sorts of things that make me happiest! This charmer of a box dates to 1830 or so there are a couple of very close examples on the website of quilt historian Barbara Brackman relating to the presidential contest between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson (1824 or 28). I've had a few stencil theorem painted velvet topped boxes, but this I believe the earliest and my favorite for the "forget me not"