SWEET HOME, Mid 1800s Punch Paper Embroidery on Lovely Silk Ribbon antique calling card with minor scuffs and scrapes

with minor scuffs and scrapes and just a tiny bit of roughness around the flat edge

tightly stuffed with raw cotton

simple black frame

with lots of use in it yet

clinical looking dark green box with silvery white print and one initial--"A" for automobile in this case

SWEET HOME, Mid 1800s Punch Paper Embroidery on Lovely Silk Ribbon antique calling card with minor scuffs and scrapesI see a good number of punch paper embroideries on ribbon, spanning from earlier to later 19th century and beyond; some are a whole lot better than others and I've gotten pretty particular. This is an earlier and very nicely done one, with quintessentially New England colonial house sweet home indeed:) On especially lovely silk ribbon too. Overall 8 7 8" x 2 3 8". Embroidery 3 1 4" l. Good antique condition. with maybe one tiny stitch lost from the