Mid 19th Century Glass Cased Forget Me Not with Silk Flowers (Flowers Untethered) uncle sam with the owl used as

with the owl used as a symbol to welcome good luck and good fortune

then with a layer of white on the upper half

represented in the portrait miniature of a woman tucked under the paw of front facing cat

Though largely self taught

each and every one

Mid 19th Century Glass Cased Forget Me Not with Silk Flowers (Flowers Untethered) uncle sam with the owl used asLots of tender and lovely very old small things today just the sorts of things that make me the happiest! I don't come across early Victorian cased forget me nots like this one often, but when I do I always scoop them up, finding them completely charming and rather magical feeling like antique reliquaries, but love tokens. And what I especially love about one is the reverse painting of the perimeter glass looking just like pressed sea moss, but in