Don't Forget Me, Brilliantly Colored, Beautiful Condition 1820s-30s American Sewing Box with Stencil Painted Sentiment gold painted school slate and also included are notecards

and also included are notecards and correspondence with additional recipes

These little drawings + poems are the kind of find that fill me with great joy--in part because of their marvelous

and with an incredible

as there should be inside a box with a heart

a folk art sewer tile end of day creation I believe

Don't Forget Me, Brilliantly Colored, Beautiful Condition 1820s-30s American Sewing Box with Stencil Painted Sentiment gold painted school slate and also included are notecardsI've had one other brilliantly colorful papered sewing box akin to this one, with stencil painted velvet pin cushion at center of the lid, and have come to understand how precious they are, c. 1820s 30s this one reading Don't Forget Me, and but for a bit of loss to the red paint of the final E, pretty much perfectly preserved. I find the color just electric, and terrifically modern feeling too, with block printed pattern in silver decorating the