Exquisite, Unusual Late 18th/Early 19th C Pinprick and Watercolor Love Token rolling Another great turned wooden box

Another great turned wooden box

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2 15/16" in diameter x 3/4" tall

who described them as Pre-Columbian Mexican

or one could fashion one from a piece of wire

Exquisite, Unusual Late 18th/Early 19th C Pinprick and Watercolor Love Token rolling Another great turned wooden boxThis exquisite thing is many times better in person, where you can clearly see every tiny pin prick in the paper (details give a better sense.) All those tiny pricked holes really amplify its graphicness and impart it with an intimate sort of intensity (or intense sort of intimacy) and my goodness, wha a lot of labor and care invested in it. I'm just back from the Boston Antiquarian Book Fair as I write this not where I purchased this, but where I