We All Do Fade As a Leaf, Mid 1800s Gold Beaded Punch Paper Embroidery on Silk Ribbon entomolgy and cubes for periods

and cubes for periods

This one no longer locks

pure black ink for hooves and ears and eyes

And sold as found in a beautiful 19th century wide wooden frame with jointed corners

reminding one of the lay of the land prior to the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo ending the Mexican American War in 1848 (the reddish watercolor line on the card demarcates the pre-1848 border)

We All Do Fade As a Leaf, Mid 1800s Gold Beaded Punch Paper Embroidery on Silk Ribbon entomolgy and cubes for periodsWe all do fade as a leaf, indeed. Something richer and more interesting to the fading of a leaf than a flower, I'd say. This is an extra large one, which lends what feels like quite a bit of gravitas to the pronouncement, too. And embroidered in metallic gold beads, which furthers that sense of weight, and which themselves have surely darkened tarnished a bit over the many years of its life, all to the good. A most frame worthy one either with the