Farewell, Mid 19th Century Reverse Painted Glass, Foil and Paper Flowers Forget Me Not military Hardback with cloth spine and

Hardback with cloth spine and hand-marbled paper cover

black ink/marker on a good

Some aging to the surface--seems fitting

with red wing and what was surely once a brighter green body

by Weston and Brenda Anderson with a philosophy of creating hand crafted products affordable to the middle class

Farewell, Mid 19th Century Reverse Painted Glass, Foil and Paper Flowers Forget Me Not military Hardback with cloth spine andI've found a few mid 19th century "forget me nots" of this sort over the years, though don't come across them very often, and will continue to scoop them up whenever I do. They feel to me midway between Italian reliquaries and Victorian glass domed waxworks, and most of all full of the never ending (and very early Victorian) drive to make momentos of every sort lest one be forgotten. And these of course are best lit by candlelight, with the reverse