Charm Our Eyes! Scarce and Marvelous Riedel, Nuremberg Mechanical Valentine c. 1830s native american diorama Seems to me the person

Seems to me the person who kept this little notebook was planning or in the process of building a cabin in the woods

This is a Persian terracotta oil lamp

and making a super click clack as they knock up against each other

and costs associated with growing potatoes

Single faced jug: 4 1/4" tall x 4 1/8" wide x 3 1/2" deep

Charm Our Eyes! Scarce and Marvelous Riedel, Nuremberg Mechanical Valentine c. 1830s native american diorama Seems to me the personAmazing! I love going to Brimfield, but occasions of finding true treasures digging through boxes in far corners happens less and less and less. But then this, and a second early mechanical valentine also listed today the sorts of lucky finds that keeps me ever hopeful. This is quite a rare one, an early mechanical valentine, published by Riedel in Nuremberg, Germany, for English export, 1830s. I have found one reference to this particular valentine,