Charm Our Eyes! Scarce and Marvelous Riedel, Nuremberg Mechanical Valentine c. 1830s cloissone Folder: 12 1/4 x 10

Folder: 12 1/4 x 10 1/16

but it feels rather more like a lobster boat in spirit

Actual can sized

and one could slip a tea spoon through the hollow handle for carrying

which features half a dozen examples of his work: Jinks was born into a sharecropper family in Locust Grove

Charm Our Eyes! Scarce and Marvelous Riedel, Nuremberg Mechanical Valentine c. 1830s cloissone Folder: 12 1/4 x 10Amazing! I love going to Brimfield, but occasions of finding true treasures digging through boxes in far corners happens less and less and less. But then this, and a second early mechanical valentine also listed today the sorts of lucky finds that keeps me ever hopeful. This is quite a rare one, an early mechanical valentine, published by Riedel in Nuremberg, Germany, for English export, 1830s. I have found one reference to this particular valentine,