Charm Our Eyes! Scarce and Marvelous Riedel, Nuremberg Mechanical Valentine c. 1830s Shaw & Nodder Hive box in good condition

Hive box in good condition

I think it would also be happy attached to a post and stuck outside in the garden to keep watch over the veggies

An outdoor photo

that it was made quite a long time ago

Though I am not entirely certain what that might be

Charm Our Eyes! Scarce and Marvelous Riedel, Nuremberg Mechanical Valentine c. 1830s Shaw & Nodder Hive box in good conditionAmazing! I love going to Brimfield, but occasions of finding true treasures digging through boxes in far corners happens less and less and less. But then this, and a second early mechanical valentine also listed today the sorts of lucky finds that keeps me ever hopeful. This is quite a rare one, an early mechanical valentine, published by Riedel in Nuremberg, Germany, for English export, 1830s. I have found one reference to this particular valentine,