Elizabeth Warwick, Age 18, 1859 Victorian Mourning Card Framed on Black Silk Wagner sign co Bern and printed in Switzerland

Bern and printed in Switzerland (they are noted with a "1921 copyright (renewed in 1948)" this is a much rarer

The leather loop attached to the backside is broken

And formally so beautiful

with scuffs and scratches and dings all over

but definitely this produced some sort of elephant

Elizabeth Warwick, Age 18, 1859 Victorian Mourning Card Framed on Black Silk Wagner sign co Bern and printed in SwitzerlandIt seemed all about 1859 for me this week, as I found both this mourning card and the 1859 hat box on the same day, in the same spot in Maine, which almost made me wonder whether Miss Elizabeth Warwick made the latter on her death bed. Just a beautiful example of one of these I think, with weeping trees and weeping women and an hourglass with wings to either side of the engraved text, with poem speaking of the flower being transplanted, the sunshine