Sweet Old Double Sided (Partially) Hand-embroidered Potholder antique handmade Spanish postcard hard not to think about

hard not to think about literal and figural fires blazing all around us as one looks at it now

and I love how small the hollow for snuff is compared with the scale of the shoe itself

with just a single chamber

and especially the stack of handwritten correspondence inside dating back to the 1850s

Sweet Old Double Sided (Partially) Hand-embroidered Potholder antique handmade Spanish postcard hard not to think aboutJust a little thing, which I believe lost some of the embroidery on its black silk surface along the way, but which I found too sweet to leave behind. To me makes me think of a pair of bright stars emerging from a black sky, and then on reverse just this funny little patch of colorful stitched blobs which just seem like a little flurry of exuberant moments. 5 5 8" x 5 5 8" not including hanging loop at corner. Good condition with embroidery loss as