SOLD Early 19th Century Miniature Silk Needlepoint Sampler/Love Token with Dogs and Bird and Flowering Urns brass outlined in copper I believe

outlined in copper I believe

I find this rather a haunting little carving

but then off it goes

And happily Howard had the presence of mind to record the year

SOLD Early 19th Century Miniature Silk Needlepoint Sampler/Love Token with Dogs and Bird and Flowering Urns brass outlined in copper I believeI 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