Scarce 1850s Payson's Indelible Ink Tin (A Valentine of Sorts) pin prick portrait and really the best looking

and really the best looking in terms of graphics I've seen

with 56 cards plus instructions and 2 key cards

built in 1815

There is wear to this box consistent with its age

There are some pencil marks just underneath the green on the tree at left

Scarce 1850s Payson's Indelible Ink Tin (A Valentine of Sorts) pin prick portrait and really the best lookingBetween the first of the year and February 14, everything is a valentine to me. (I'm really not much of one for holidays, but I'm a big one for expressions of love.) So a tin tube that once housed a bottle of indelible ink seems quite romantic perfect for writing poems of love that will never fade! (It is also useful in preventing election fraud.) Payson's indelible ink was invented by pharmacist John Payson Williston in Northampton, Massachusetts and