HOPE, Amazing 1839 Hand-beaded-on-Every-Surface Folk Art Needle Book + Pin Keep easter basket and a faint penciled number

and a faint penciled number at the corner of each suggests they were likely part of a larger series (one sees similar numbering on antique watercolor of flowers

but great just for whatever

or perhaps the serious daughter and out-seeking-his fortune son

she seems as sultry as she does pious

HOPE, Amazing 1839 Hand-beaded-on-Every-Surface Folk Art Needle Book + Pin Keep easter basket and a faint penciled numberTotal delight finding this one, purchased from a seller in Arizona, whose mother was an avid antique collector. I've been keeping an eagle eye out for early beaded needle books since finding a marvelous one with a house and the phrase "remember me" on it months ago these types of examples, hand beaded with tiny tiny glass seed beads, date to the first half of the 19th century and are scarce but now this is the third I've turned up. And what a charmer