The Wring is Round It Hath No End, 1856 Ink and Watercolor Love Token Drawing olive tongs Photos follow the sequence pretty

Photos follow the sequence pretty much as it goes

Met Museum

from shop wall to

with three different concave areas that feel as if custom shaped in order to accommodate the tight squeeze of a hand (mine quite exactly

Good overall condition for its age

The Wring is Round It Hath No End, 1856 Ink and Watercolor Love Token Drawing olive tongs Photos follow the sequence pretty"The wring is round It hath no end So is my love To you my friend. Farewell. 1856." How to read that, in those perfectly inked little letters, and not be moved?? And how not to wonder about the nature of that farewell??? I simply do not have the capacity to resist something like this, made all the more special by those two beautifully long fingered hands reaching together at the top of that "wring" to complete the form of a heart with flowers to