SOLD Early 19th Century Miniature Silk Needlepoint Sampler/Love Token with Dogs and Bird and Flowering Urns shadow puppet with snake Pictured last is the dated

Pictured last is the dated companion drawing mentioned above

I think this one likely had a china head

which preceeded Bluff as the name for the tag-like game

L just used this box

SOLD Early 19th Century Miniature Silk Needlepoint Sampler/Love Token with Dogs and Bird and Flowering Urns shadow puppet with snake Pictured last is the datedI paid close to what I'm asking on this one, which is sometimes the case there are things I just need to become the steward of for a bit. How to resist these tiny tiny dogs? Or that tiny yellow bird atop its tiny tree? I could not. The scale of it makes me think of love tokens and early handmade rewards of merit, and indeed this is stitched to a paper backing, which looks to me to bear simply the word "Dear" in ink. That's what I see, anyway. Silk