1903 Heart Shaped Love Token Metalsmith's Paperweight with Inset Photo painted folk art animal made of walnut I believe

made of walnut I believe

on the other between figure with compass at far left and the meeting house "spied" in the distance at right

MA in 1876 as a patented medicine called Moxie Nerve food and went on to become one of the first mass-produced soft drinks in the U

that this very beautiful boy is in fact a very young soldier--and I have learned that during WW2 Fred Harvey's Harvey House restaurants re-opened to serve soldiers as they traveled in troop trains across the U

showing plenty of rusting and erosion

1903 Heart Shaped Love Token Metalsmith's Paperweight with Inset Photo painted folk art animal made of walnut I believeAmong my very favorite Brimfield finds, I purchased this one from a South Carolina based dealer who has been the source of a number of treasures. I've never seen the likes of it before, a paperweight with photograph embedded perfectly framed by cutout heart inside the larger brass heart. Surely a love token, and surely made by a metalsmith, in 1903, I presume for his sweetheart Carrie (or Earrie? but I'm thinking maybe he just added an extra flourish