Mid 19th Century Glass Cased Forget Me Not with Silk Flowers (Flowers Untethered) uncle sam I framed this one to

I framed this one to keep it safe and because I really love it--and the frame itself is a great one

Though largely self taught

with the owl used as a symbol to welcome good luck and good fortune

so as to make the flip side with more diagrams visible on reverse

the numbers and letters gone over with ink

Mid 19th Century Glass Cased Forget Me Not with Silk Flowers (Flowers Untethered) uncle sam I framed this one toLots 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