The Visitation, Antique Brass Pole Screen with Fine Georgian Silk Embroidery on Paper barrel shaped box including with the words "Everybody

including with the words "Everybody Loves

At some point it must have been glued to a base or part of some larger scenario

all from 1904

And then this gorgeous raw edge around the top

This guy looks to me as if he just rode into town with some schemes up his sleeve or snake oil to sell--quite a character

The Visitation, Antique Brass Pole Screen with Fine Georgian Silk Embroidery on Paper barrel shaped box including with the words "EverybodyMy happiest surprise find of the week, at an antiques shop in southern Maine this is quite a marvelous and special feeling thing. The embroidery hand dyed silk thread on laid paper is an early one, early 19th century I believe, depicting my personal favorite Biblical scene, "the Visitation," when Mary, pregnant with Jesus, visits her cousin Elizabeth, who was pregnant with John the Baptist. The scene is wonderfully, tenderly depicted here, the two