Mid 19th Century Glass Cased Forget Me Not with Silk Flowers (Flowers Untethered) please sign or a candy bowl

or a candy bowl

One assumes she is tending to German soldiers at the hospital in the background

such that it feels dainty and delicate even while rather graphic--and with a quite dramatic range of motion to our thrusting fellow

with the central image including several vignettes occurring in a shop of some sort accompanied by the phrase "Keep Thy Shop and Thy Shop Will Keep Thee" (another reason why this one won me

A terrific old pair of black and white painted oversized carved solid wood dice

Mid 19th Century Glass Cased Forget Me Not with Silk Flowers (Flowers Untethered) please sign or a candy bowlLots of tender and lovely very old small things today just the sorts of things that make me the happiest! I don't come across early Victorian cased forget me nots like this one often, but when I do I always scoop them up, finding them completely charming and rather magical feeling like antique reliquaries, but love tokens. And what I especially love about one is the reverse painting of the perimeter glass looking just like pressed sea moss, but in