Charm Our Eyes! Scarce and Marvelous Riedel, Nuremberg Mechanical Valentine c. 1830s cloissone I find the bold black

I find the bold black stencil painted lettering against creamy white ground on this old sign very beautiful

which appears to me to be wove--relatively thin but quite strong and durable

Actual can sized

I do rather love the vision of a series of them lined up along the bar in a lively saloon somewhere out west

Charm Our Eyes! Scarce and Marvelous Riedel, Nuremberg Mechanical Valentine c. 1830s cloissone I find the bold blackAmazing! I love going to Brimfield, but occasions of finding true treasures digging through boxes in far corners happens less and less and less. But then this, and a second early mechanical valentine also listed today the sorts of lucky finds that keeps me ever hopeful. This is quite a rare one, an early mechanical valentine, published by Riedel in Nuremberg, Germany, for English export, 1830s. I have found one reference to this particular valentine,