Mid 19th Century Glass Cased Forget Me Not with Silk Flowers (Flowers Untethered) uncle sam a set of handmade metal

a set of handmade metal ones--and in their original hand-carved slide lid box to boot

the numbers and letters gone over with ink

Letters 5/8" to 11/16" t

then with a layer of white on the upper half

so as to make the flip side with more diagrams visible on reverse

Mid 19th Century Glass Cased Forget Me Not with Silk Flowers (Flowers Untethered) uncle sam a set of handmade metalLots of tender and lovely very old small things today just the sorts of things that make me the happiest! I don't come across early Victorian cased forget me nots like this one often, but when I do I always scoop them up, finding them completely charming and rather magical feeling like antique reliquaries, but love tokens. And what I especially love about one is the reverse painting of the perimeter glass looking just like pressed sea moss, but in