Woman of Mystery, Antique Tapestry/Embroidery Covered Powder Box with Mirror type stamps Fabric covering the outside spine

Fabric covering the outside spine of the notebook is loose half the way up but inside pages in good

with some nice alligatoring to the cream paint

but which one also could perhaps instead take for flowering cacti

sometimes perhaps with nothing at all but it is hard to know now

I seem to be having a bit of a bird moment

Woman of Mystery, Antique Tapestry/Embroidery Covered Powder Box with Mirror type stamps Fabric covering the outside spineSo many things little things to fall in love with and my weakness for boxes of all sorts only seems to grow, all the better when they deliver a portrait, too! I've not seen another quite like this, with the portrait appearing to have been woven as a tapestry, though perhaps finely embroidered, as it has remained pretty much in tact while the the plum ground is pretty threadbare. I love the effects of time and wear, making our rather Mona Lisa esque