Charm Our Eyes! Scarce and Marvelous Riedel, Nuremberg Mechanical Valentine c. 1830s native american diorama The colors are a bit

The colors are a bit brighter than in photos - the light green in pretty electric

The metal looks like brass

A good one for the proud owner of a shepherd to use to stamp all over the place

and making a super click clack as they knock up against each other

Seems to me the person who kept this little notebook was planning or in the process of building a cabin in the woods

Charm Our Eyes! Scarce and Marvelous Riedel, Nuremberg Mechanical Valentine c. 1830s native american diorama The colors are a bitAmazing! I love going to Brimfield, but occasions of finding true treasures digging through boxes in far corners happens less and less and less. But then this, and a second early mechanical valentine also listed today the sorts of lucky finds that keeps me ever hopeful. This is quite a rare one, an early mechanical valentine, published by Riedel in Nuremberg, Germany, for English export, 1830s. I have found one reference to this particular valentine,