1840s Boxed German Album Amicorum with Many Lovelies good shepherd retablo and an almost expressionistically carved

and an almost expressionistically carved head of hair

much more finely carved (and very precious) examples of these out there

In wooden crate with jointed corners and smart looking American Crayon Company paper label: Freart for Free Expression Work--a phrase which itself feels like a timely mandate

whose got quite a power walker's stride

1840s Boxed German Album Amicorum with Many Lovelies good shepherd retablo and an almost expressionistically carvedI only recently learned about album amicorum (Latin for "book of friends") or liber amicorum, a European manuscript tradition, beginning in the 16ht century, where individualsoften students, scholars, or aristocratscollected signatures, poems, illustrations, and in this case embroideries, from friends, colleagues, and notable figures. A sort of precursor to the Victorian autograph album, but these were comprised of loose pieces, collected over time,