Tiny Buzzing Bees at Hive, Partial But Very Charming Early 19th Century Album Amicorum Needlepoint handmade puzzle in box This is an original pen

This is an original pen and black ink drawing by William Charles Palmer (signed and dated 1940 right above "Cephalopoda") executed on rice paper

seated (disarmed) posture suggesting she may soon be the victim either of them or the murderer on the phone

I love everything about this painting

with the center hexagon of each featuring a tiny ink/watercolor drawing

but I'm not entirely sure what mix of dried herbs and flowers it is in the others--but they smell good

Tiny Buzzing Bees at Hive, Partial But Very Charming Early 19th Century Album Amicorum Needlepoint handmade puzzle in box This is an original penI am guessing that this small, very fine (impossibly so!) needlepoint was once part of an early 19th century German "Album Amicorum" or friendship book a collection of small mementos from friends and family (watercolors, drawings, handwritten messages, and often small needlepoints) of a certain size, housed in a special box. Clearly, much of the paper square it was once mounted to, with gold foil border, is gone but I was so completely taken with the