Two Loops and a Line, Victorian Mounted Hair Samples "Drawing", 1867, with Verse on Reverse antique folk art sewing I seem to remember receiving

I seem to remember receiving a yoyo once or twice in my xmas stocking as a kid

Another little carving

in the case of this Sanskrit manuscript page

I think 1910s

including for the fact of it appearing to be a photograph of an earlier photograph of a young Arthur Florence (the framing around him is all part of the photo

Two Loops and a Line, Victorian Mounted Hair Samples "Drawing", 1867, with Verse on Reverse antique folk art sewing I seem to remember receivingOne more from a small collection of hair locks and wreaths dating to the 1860s all stitched to, or tucked into, bits of paper annotated with names and notes. I considered listing them as a collection, but realized much of what I find especially beautiful about these is their specificity and singularity in terms of form and content (color, composition, and in this case very much the handwritten names and notes) and so have treated them as individual