19th C. Token of Friendship Theorem: From a True Friend chainstitch which makes them too feel

which makes them too feel rather like art objects to me

and many more on the back side

and I believe may reference Louis XIV

still turn just fine

and another tiny house at bottom right

19th C. Token of Friendship Theorem: From a True Friend chainstitch which makes them too feelIn my book, it's always time for a valentine or token of friendship, and what a lovely one is this, From a True Friend indeed! The text appears to have been block printed, the rest done in watercolor and ink by hand (using hand cut stencils, which is how theorems were made, and, I recently learned, the paint was often blown onto the paper via a glass tube, like a straw; at least so I was told!) A lovely example, and unlike others I've seen mid 19th c.