Exquisite, Unusual Late 18th/Early 19th C Pinprick and Watercolor Love Token rolling Housed inside the fine macrame/knot

Housed inside the fine macrame/knot work at the large end is a lead weight

red cheeked Dutch girl (with really fabulous eyelashes) stands just about as tall as the windmill

I'd be a bit gentle handling the seat around the unfurled edges but the rest is very well attached

or one could fashion one from a piece of wire

and likely once with a door stop attached

Exquisite, Unusual Late 18th/Early 19th C Pinprick and Watercolor Love Token rolling Housed inside the fine macrame/knotThis exquisite thing is many times better in person, where you can clearly see every tiny pin prick in the paper (details give a better sense.) All those tiny pricked holes really amplify its graphicness and impart it with an intimate sort of intensity (or intense sort of intimacy) and my goodness, wha a lot of labor and care invested in it. I'm just back from the Boston Antiquarian Book Fair as I write this not where I purchased this, but where I