1840s Boxed German Album Amicorum with Many Lovelies portrait of boy and dog and actually quite holy feeling

and actually quite holy feeling

Michael at right

I am pretty certain these wonderful hand-painted turned wooden pins or skittles are French and that they date to the 1920s or so

and what I’d guess was once white cloth is now stained pretty much all over

1840s Boxed German Album Amicorum with Many Lovelies portrait of boy and dog and actually quite holy feelingI only recently learned about album amicorum (Latin for "book of friends") or liber amicorum, a European manuscript tradition, beginning in the 16ht century, where individualsoften students, scholars, or aristocratscollected signatures, poems, illustrations, and in this case embroideries, from friends, colleagues, and notable figures. A sort of precursor to the Victorian autograph album, but these were comprised of loose pieces, collected over time,