Exquisite, Unusual Late 18th/Early 19th C Pinprick and Watercolor Love Token folk art hook I always have an eye

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

but the white I think makes it an especially special feeling pigeon

Pins are 2 5/8" tall

Exquisite, Unusual Late 18th/Early 19th C Pinprick and Watercolor Love Token folk art hook I always have an eyeThis 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