Edmund Hawley's 1831 Cut Paper and Ink Drawn Valentine tin rattle and all sorts of other

and all sorts of other interesting odds and ends

miraculously I just found this set

I'd guess this piece is quite old

and the Old Maid herself

Each is unique

Edmund Hawley's 1831 Cut Paper and Ink Drawn Valentine tin rattle and all sorts of otherI surely would not much have enjoyed living in the 1830s, but I'm invariably smitten with the naive watercolors and ink drawings and cut paper love tokens of that decade, especially. This one, which appears to have been given to an Edmund Hawley of Norfolk (CT I believe) from an Alanson Bunnel on Dec. 2, 1831, is lovely example, combining cut paper hearts and diamonds (made by folding the paper) and ink drawn flowers and flourishes. I've turned up one