Beware of Modern Love, Old Punch Paper Needlepoint, Framed antique treen string holder It's not small - 4

It's not small - 4 7/8" wide and deep x 5 1/4" tall--so more than large enough for a ring inside a box inside

full of character and a nice one to stand hovering in a shady corner I think

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Beware of Modern Love, Old Punch Paper Needlepoint, Framed antique treen string holder It's not small - 4As I've said before, the diversity of messages on these old punch perforated paper needlepoints just kills me, and here is a perfect case in point! I'd love to know exactly the context in which this one was stitched perhaps by a young woman recently betrayed? Or by her mother, sending her a message?! Whatever the case, quite a thing, made all the better by the period at the end of the phrase; no equivocation there! And with a loss to the lower left