Tiny Buzzing Bees at Hive, Partial But Very Charming Early 19th Century Album Amicorum Needlepoint portraitas 6 7/8" t x 5

6 7/8" t x 5 1/4" in diameter and in excellent

9" across at handle

I purchased this from a favorite antiques shop just over the NH border in Vermont

Binding in excellent shape

Tiny Buzzing Bees at Hive, Partial But Very Charming Early 19th Century Album Amicorum Needlepoint portraitas 6 7/8" t x 5I am guessing that this small, very fine (impossibly so!) needlepoint was once part of an early 19th century German "Album Amicorum" or friendship book a collection of small mementos from friends and family (watercolors, drawings, handwritten messages, and often small needlepoints) of a certain size, housed in a special box. Clearly, much of the paper square it was once mounted to, with gold foil border, is gone but I was so completely taken with the