Exquisite, Unusual Late 18th/Early 19th C Pinprick and Watercolor Love Token folk art hook A little further research leads

A little further research leads me to believe that he was a member of the very prominent Sayward family of York Maine

I always have an eye out for vintage teaching toys and games with great graphics--allowing them to double as design objects

but all of the lids come off easily and close tight

which as I'm sure you know just makes it more endearing to me

I think it's an old blue Playskool block under the brown-painted

Exquisite, Unusual Late 18th/Early 19th C Pinprick and Watercolor Love Token folk art hook A little further research leadsThis exquisite thing is many times better in person, where you can clearly see every tiny pin prick in the paper (details give a better sense.) All those tiny pricked holes really amplify its graphicness and impart it with an intimate sort of intensity (or intense sort of intimacy) and my goodness, wha a lot of labor and care invested in it. I'm just back from the Boston Antiquarian Book Fair as I write this not where I purchased this, but where I