SOLD Early 19th Century Miniature Silk Needlepoint Sampler/Love Token with Dogs and Bird and Flowering Urns brass with a listing that says

with a listing that says it held military glasses

I find this rather a haunting little carving

This striking wood engraving by Olin Dows (1904-1981) titled Market: Riga is one of a series of prints the artist created while traveling in the 1930s (I believe Riga refers to Riga

) and I really love how rather than miles at the arrow end there are now just black paint drips

measures 20 15/16" x 9 3/4"

SOLD Early 19th Century Miniature Silk Needlepoint Sampler/Love Token with Dogs and Bird and Flowering Urns brass with a listing that saysI 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