Very Fine Mid 19th Century Crocheted Pin Keep with Micro-bead Star and Interior Pocket baby portrait tintype but a bit of a

but a bit of a mystery beyond that

but even better when housed in this great looking old slide top box with "Stencil Outfit" stenciled on the lid

striking from a distance and also very intimate

28 painted wooden dominoes

The watercolor landscape she is set amid (with stream running through the middle of it which she seems ready to magically float across) is shaped like two overlapping hearts

Very Fine Mid 19th Century Crocheted Pin Keep with Micro-bead Star and Interior Pocket baby portrait tintype but a bit of aThe tiniest tiny white beads and the tiniest finely crocheted stitches on this antique pin keep I can't even imagine. I know from a similar one that I have been eyeing in the case of a pin cushion expert at an antique shop near me that it dates to the mid 19th century (and that dealer has hers priced at more than twice what I'm listing this one for.) Same beaded star pattern on either side, and then a hidden opening along a segment of one perimeter