Fantastic 19th Century Very Finely Beaded Green and White Checkerboard Patterned Needlebook/Pinkeep mid-century sculpture in this manner

in this manner

the the wood smoothed and softened around the edges over many many years

which I don't think detracts a bit

two larger--and lid that lifts to a larger one

And this great long legged girl with her pink top and yellow pants and spade and and hoe and I'm not sure what at the end of her orange glove

Fantastic 19th Century Very Finely Beaded Green and White Checkerboard Patterned Needlebook/Pinkeep mid-century sculpture in this mannerI swooned when I spotted this one, sold to me by a favorite dealer from Maine, and which I am quite sure is 19th c. New England. Since finding a very similarly constructed finely beaded needlebook a month or so ago (that one with a white New England house and sentiment "Remember Me" spelled out in tiny seed beads, just the size of these) I have been obsessed; not many of these out there, and it wouldn't surprise me a bit if this was made by the same