1903 Heart Shaped Love Token Metalsmith's Paperweight with Inset Photo painted folk art animal The head itself is painted

The head itself is painted a good dark green

MA in 1876 as a patented medicine called Moxie Nerve food and went on to become one of the first mass-produced soft drinks in the U

and there are eight very tiny holes forming a pattern on the front

And then these swans

1903 Heart Shaped Love Token Metalsmith's Paperweight with Inset Photo painted folk art animal The head itself is paintedAmong my very favorite Brimfield finds, I purchased this one from a South Carolina based dealer who has been the source of a number of treasures. I've never seen the likes of it before, a paperweight with photograph embedded perfectly framed by cutout heart inside the larger brass heart. Surely a love token, and surely made by a metalsmith, in 1903, I presume for his sweetheart Carrie (or Earrie? but I'm thinking maybe he just added an extra flourish