Lovely Early Victorian Theorem Painted "Token of Friendship" Box with Interior Mirror Warehouse Point Silk Co. the ball jade

the ball jade

but the seaweed is perfectly preserved and really lovely

Well of course I was going to nab this when I found it

I love every packed inch of it

Lovely Early Victorian Theorem Painted "Token of Friendship" Box with Interior Mirror Warehouse Point Silk Co. the ball jadeI can't resist a forget me not that's endured some 150 years, and even more so one as lovely as this box. With theorem style stencil painted velvet top reading "token of friendship", embossed silver foil trim around perimeter and sides, and original mirror inside. I'm not entirely sure what it once would have held that fit into that round niche perhaps a pot of rouge? but could hold various sorts of trinkets or mementos now, or deliver a chocolate