19th C. Token of Friendship Theorem: From a True Friend chainstitch still turn just fine

still turn just fine

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and many more on the back side

which makes them too feel rather like art objects to me

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19th C. Token of Friendship Theorem: From a True Friend chainstitch still turn just fineIn my book, it's always time for a valentine or token of friendship, and what a lovely one is this, From a True Friend indeed! The text appears to have been block printed, the rest done in watercolor and ink by hand (using hand cut stencils, which is how theorems were made, and, I recently learned, the paint was often blown onto the paper via a glass tube, like a straw; at least so I was told!) A lovely example, and unlike others I've seen mid 19th c.