Scarce 1850s Payson's Indelible Ink Tin (A Valentine of Sorts) pin prick portrait There are some pencil marks

There are some pencil marks just underneath the green on the tree at left

built in 1815

and it's the sort of thing that

with 56 cards plus instructions and 2 key cards

hanger stitched to the top of the back (a somewhat later addition)

Scarce 1850s Payson's Indelible Ink Tin (A Valentine of Sorts) pin prick portrait There are some pencil marksBetween the first of the year and February 14, everything is a valentine to me. (I'm really not much of one for holidays, but I'm a big one for expressions of love.) So a tin tube that once housed a bottle of indelible ink seems quite romantic perfect for writing poems of love that will never fade! (It is also useful in preventing election fraud.) Payson's indelible ink was invented by pharmacist John Payson Williston in Northampton, Massachusetts and