Hearts Aflame, C. 1840s Inscribed Hand-colored German Love Token with Gold Foil Arrowmont School which I find the most

which I find the most perfect logo ever designed

but it is heavy for its size and of a nice scale

painted in a combination of oil and acrylic by Kansas City artist Susi Lulaki on a shingle salvaged from an old house being torn down in Chase County

who wrote his name many times all over it--including all over the back side of this drawing

I've always got an eye out for old handmade petanque/boules balls

Hearts Aflame, C. 1840s Inscribed Hand-colored German Love Token with Gold Foil Arrowmont School which I find the mostThe text here, in German, roughly translates to say: May happiness always accompany you and brighten your day, and may your hope always rest on solid ground. Hard to argue with such a lovely sentiment as that! This dates to the 1840s or so, and would have been given as a love token or valentine. Hand colored, with gold foil frame around the happy couple. And a handwritten inscription on reverse, in German I believe, hard to decipher. Really lovely I