A Remembrance, Victorian Glass Encased Forget Me Not chas Goodall I love toy slingshots for

I love toy slingshots for their sculptural forms

smiling "good morning

RI history (Sweet appears to have opened in 1840 as a manufacturer and wholesale dealer of dry goods

with the clay body showing through especially on and near the foot

A Remembrance, Victorian Glass Encased Forget Me Not chas Goodall I love toy slingshots forA very charming example of a Victorian "forget me not" I think constructed like a shadow box, sealed forever with glass over top. This one combines paper, cloth and real dried flowers and sprigs in the wreath at center, with scallop edged gold foil surrounding that, and what looks to me to be a very carefully hand lettered "a remembrance" at center. The red on the corners appears to comes from being painted on the underside of the glass. With heavy,