HOPE, Amazing 1839 Hand-beaded-on-Every-Surface Folk Art Needle Book + Pin Keep Edgar S. Yergason drawing his son one assumes

his son one assumes

with little ink drawing of a house

Second half of 19th century I would think

even better when that one of a 200+ years old beauty

This is a pretty old one I think

HOPE, Amazing 1839 Hand-beaded-on-Every-Surface Folk Art Needle Book + Pin Keep Edgar S. Yergason drawing his son one assumesTotal delight finding this one, purchased from a seller in Arizona, whose mother was an avid antique collector. I've been keeping an eagle eye out for early beaded needle books since finding a marvelous one with a house and the phrase "remember me" on it months ago these types of examples, hand beaded with tiny tiny glass seed beads, date to the first half of the 19th century and are scarce but now this is the third I've turned up. And what a charmer