SOLD WIFE, 1912 Folk Art Love Token Wheel Barrow with Velvet Pin Cushion, Signed modeling tools the top piece screws on

the top piece screws on tight and snug

Opening measures 8 5/8" x 6 1/2"

just one bag missing a label

Plus what is more beautiful than those cones and pyramids and half-spheres just on their own

and much of the lower half of it lost entirely-- but all the better to see her paper skirt underneath

SOLD WIFE, 1912 Folk Art Love Token Wheel Barrow with Velvet Pin Cushion, Signed modeling tools the top piece screws onI found this one at an antiques show in Maine to my great delight a love token and a pin cushion and miniature wheel barrow rolled in one! Constructed of cigar box wood, painted gold around the perimeter, wire, and just right blue velvet for the pin cushion, with wonderfully carved arrow pierced heart at center, and WIFE spelled out in pins what could be better? Ah, a handwritten dedication, to EMR from MHR 1912, on the underside, too! One imagines a