Wonderful Antique Hand-carved Heart Shaped Box with Scalloped Edges Everywhere miniature portrait painting I'm such a sucker for

I'm such a sucker for little handmade paper dolls and assorted props made for play--pure embodiments of a lively imagination--and I just love envisioning the various dramas these little figures once acted out

and two buttons down the front gives this old stocking doll a whole lot of personality--he really called to me from across the room

which I presume was made as a snuff box

1940s I'd guess

I find this to be one of the most beautiful

Wonderful Antique Hand-carved Heart Shaped Box with Scalloped Edges Everywhere miniature portrait painting I'm such a sucker forOne of a number of hearts this week; I think even more than ever I am looking for tokens of love these days, to surround oneself with as buffers against so much harshness. And what a beauty of antique hand carved heart shaped box, radiating a whole lot of love and care (and time!) invested in its making. I've really never seen another this scale and with so detailed; more often one sees smaller, simpler versions (I have a second listed today that