Mid 19th Century Glass Cased Forget Me Not with Silk Flowers (Flowers Untethered) please sign Copyright 1875

Copyright 1875

or a candy bowl

One assumes she is tending to German soldiers at the hospital in the background

I believe late 19th or very early century and for sure a very finely made

Mid 19th Century Glass Cased Forget Me Not with Silk Flowers (Flowers Untethered) please sign Copyright 1875Lots of tender and lovely very old small things today just the sorts of things that make me the happiest! I don't come across early Victorian cased forget me nots like this one often, but when I do I always scoop them up, finding them completely charming and rather magical feeling like antique reliquaries, but love tokens. And what I especially love about one is the reverse painting of the perimeter glass looking just like pressed sea moss, but in