Don't Forget Me, Brilliantly Colored, Beautiful Condition 1820s-30s American Sewing Box with Stencil Painted Sentiment mission style architecture allowing his to be positioned

allowing his to be positioned standing or sitting

and certainly as much a labor of love as baking a real loaf

I believe it is carved of Butternut

) Unlike later penmanship books

making it appear as if extracted from a notebook or folio

Don't Forget Me, Brilliantly Colored, Beautiful Condition 1820s-30s American Sewing Box with Stencil Painted Sentiment mission style architecture allowing his to be positionedI'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