Tiny Buzzing Bees at Hive, Partial But Very Charming Early 19th Century Album Amicorum Needlepoint handmade puzzle in box Church: 3 11/16" w x

Church: 3 11/16" w x 4 15/16" t

modular in scale

This is an original pen and black ink drawing by William Charles Palmer (signed and dated 1940 right above "Cephalopoda") executed on rice paper

25+ entries in a mix of ink and graphite--a good number of them but not all documented

from the harlequin patterning on all four sides (carved then painted rather than inlaid)

Tiny Buzzing Bees at Hive, Partial But Very Charming Early 19th Century Album Amicorum Needlepoint handmade puzzle in box Church: 3 11/16" w xI am guessing that this small, very fine (impossibly so!) needlepoint was once part of an early 19th century German "Album Amicorum" or friendship book a collection of small mementos from friends and family (watercolors, drawings, handwritten messages, and often small needlepoints) of a certain size, housed in a special box. Clearly, much of the paper square it was once mounted to, with gold foil border, is gone but I was so completely taken with the