Scarce 1850s Payson's Indelible Ink Tin (A Valentine of Sorts) pin prick portrait and it's the sort of

and it's the sort of thing that

One of two newly listed groupings of antique Froebel kindergarten paper-cuts today

and also think it could make a pretty terrific display box for an object or two

There is wear to this box consistent with its age

Scarce 1850s Payson's Indelible Ink Tin (A Valentine of Sorts) pin prick portrait and it's the sort ofBetween the first of the year and February 14, everything is a valentine to me. (I'm really not much of one for holidays, but I'm a big one for expressions of love.) So a tin tube that once housed a bottle of indelible ink seems quite romantic perfect for writing poems of love that will never fade! (It is also useful in preventing election fraud.) Payson's indelible ink was invented by pharmacist John Payson Williston in Northampton, Massachusetts and