Gardner B. Jolley's Very Tender Sewing Box Chair for Mother, with Portrait, 1914 remedy recipes which I believe are Victorian

which I believe are Victorian mourning buttons

But mean revenge walks abroad and shows its tracks by day

with a marvelous softness but also boldness to the paint

swatches are bright and crisp

framed at the top of this little wall shelf with heart pierced arrow at center is the tintype portrait of handsome mustached man with pink tinted cheeks

Gardner B. Jolley's Very Tender Sewing Box Chair for Mother, with Portrait, 1914 remedy recipes which I believe are VictorianA tender and heartfelt thing if I ever did see one. Surely it is Nellie Leora, mother to Gardner (I take that as a G), whose photograph is framed with wreath of braided threads at the center of chair back captured seated in a Victorian wicker chair, with book open in her hands, and very intense gaze! The rest of the chair seems all about Gardner, who embroidered the date on one side, 1914; her own age on the other, 24; and her name front and center,