Remember Me, Marvelous 19th Century Hand-beaded Folk Art Love Token Needle Book enamel painted how could I resist this

how could I resist this little watercolor portrait of Marie Antoinette

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

It still has its original string

I really love this young woman

Remember Me, Marvelous 19th Century Hand-beaded Folk Art Love Token Needle Book enamel painted how could I resist thisSo 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