1840s Boxed German Album Amicorum with Many Lovelies portrait of boy and dog Everything is in terrific shape

Everything is in terrific shape with the exception of one broken piece (a straight stick

Looks a bit like an all seeing eye too

and actually quite holy feeling

I am pretty certain these wonderful hand-painted turned wooden pins or skittles are French and that they date to the 1920s or so

1840s Boxed German Album Amicorum with Many Lovelies portrait of boy and dog Everything is in terrific shapeI only recently learned about album amicorum (Latin for "book of friends") or liber amicorum, a European manuscript tradition, beginning in the 16ht century, where individualsoften students, scholars, or aristocratscollected signatures, poems, illustrations, and in this case embroideries, from friends, colleagues, and notable figures. A sort of precursor to the Victorian autograph album, but these were comprised of loose pieces, collected over time,