Charming Victorian Valentine with Die Cut Pig and Flower cast iron lock and I love it all

and I love it all the more for its moth holes and lost stitches

with quite a presence even at tabletop scale

Years of use in it yet

with quite a history on it and many good years of use in it yet

there were a couple of different versions produced

Charming Victorian Valentine with Die Cut Pig and Flower cast iron lock and I love it allIn my book it is always time for a Valentine, and I think this is quite the charmer, though it might take the right sort of recipient to appreciate an implied comparison to a little piggy! I believe this is a fairly early one, c. 1870s or so, with what looks to me like hand coloring for the blue ground and tan pig, and then I believe gold foil on the cutout bit just above. Blank inside so ready to be sent now, though also I think certainly frame