The Visitation, Antique Brass Pole Screen with Fine Georgian Silk Embroidery on Paper pottery budvase Each combines a drawing and

Each combines a drawing and a poem

was it "Mother" who made this and decided to sign it as such

and are used by continually peeling back the paper visible at the tops

which suggests he or she was pretty proud of it

Looks to me like just one small iron nail--with nice bleed around it--securing the two parts together

The Visitation, Antique Brass Pole Screen with Fine Georgian Silk Embroidery on Paper pottery budvase Each combines a drawing andMy happiest surprise find of the week, at an antiques shop in southern Maine this is quite a marvelous and special feeling thing. The embroidery hand dyed silk thread on laid paper is an early one, early 19th century I believe, depicting my personal favorite Biblical scene, "the Visitation," when Mary, pregnant with Jesus, visits her cousin Elizabeth, who was pregnant with John the Baptist. The scene is wonderfully, tenderly depicted here, the two