Glorious 18th Century Crewelwork Embroidery Purse Fragment, Restored, with Conservation Report snowman and snowwoman The box opens and closes

The box opens and closes easily and is in good overall condition

I didn't know much at all about the history of "The Band of Hope" when I purchased this early 20th century hand-drawn postcard

and I believe was painted on bone

but with the trunk of one of them stretching through the front door

then chronologically

Glorious 18th Century Crewelwork Embroidery Purse Fragment, Restored, with Conservation Report snowman and snowwoman The box opens and closesTo my eye and sensibilities, this is a gloriously beautiful thing, and among the most special textiles I've had in my possession. It is an 18th century crewelwork embroidery, wool on linen, which I believe was originally a purse. (At the end of photos is a photo of a 1986 page from Maine Antiques Digest documenting a similar crewelwork purse believed to have been owned by John Richardson of Townsend MA sold along with a small watercolor of a house for