SOLD Early 19th Century Miniature Silk Needlepoint Sampler/Love Token with Dogs and Bird and Flowering Urns shadow puppet with snake it reads "Van Everens Visiting

it reads "Van Everens Visiting Cards" from one direction

but I think is so much better for the extra "f

7 1/2" x 4 1/2 x 6 1/8" t

I think this one likely had a china head

SOLD Early 19th Century Miniature Silk Needlepoint Sampler/Love Token with Dogs and Bird and Flowering Urns shadow puppet with snake it reads "Van Everens VisitingI 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