Marry Me? Mary A. Amee's Mid 19th Century Perforated Paper Embroidery with Birds and Urn camp Shorter measures 8 1/2" l

Shorter measures 8 1/2" l x 3/4" wide and deep

while showing a little surface rust/staining (heightened in photos) are clean and completely usable

Seems perhaps they've been out foraging

with some wear/loss to the marbled paper the on the back cover

dark green trim

Marry Me? Mary A. Amee's Mid 19th Century Perforated Paper Embroidery with Birds and Urn camp Shorter measures 8 1/2" lYou know I love a little punch paper embroidery, and this is an early and an uncommon one, with the urn and birds akin to those one would find on a full scale c. 1840s needlepoint sampler. And indeed, I would think 1840s 50s on this, the period when perforated paper was just becoming popular. The other thing I really love about this one, a coincidence I presume, is that a phonetic pronunciation of the name at top yields (more or less) Marry Me! (And