Hearts Aflame, C. 1840s Inscribed Hand-colored German Love Token with Gold Foil dominoes with brass spinners I find it very fine

I find it very fine and completely gorgeous and also elemental feeling

and none too attached to each other

This is the sort of creation that makes me super happy—way above and beyond what was needed to do the job

light scratches

with minor surface chipping as documenter

Hearts Aflame, C. 1840s Inscribed Hand-colored German Love Token with Gold Foil dominoes with brass spinners I find it very fineThe text here, in German, roughly translates to say: May happiness always accompany you and brighten your day, and may your hope always rest on solid ground. Hard to argue with such a lovely sentiment as that! This dates to the 1840s or so, and would have been given as a love token or valentine. Hand colored, with gold foil frame around the happy couple. And a handwritten inscription on reverse, in German I believe, hard to decipher. Really lovely I