The Golden Hours of Youth Are Slipping Away, Early 19th C. Ink and Watercolor Love Token by Sarah A. Stearns hand carved it is quite heavy and

it is quite heavy and one really feels the weight of all that work

One can position this in all sorts of ways

and as if it endured a bar fight or two

) The leather shows light wear but it is good shape and still tightly stitched down the sides

with the prior hand-written page providing information about that tree

The Golden Hours of Youth Are Slipping Away, Early 19th C. Ink and Watercolor Love Token by Sarah A. Stearns hand carved it is quite heavy andI purchased this one at the Boston Antiquarian Book Fair from a wonderful dealer sharing my love of early paper; clearly it shows a bit of loss along the bottom, but I just could not resist that marvelous little ink and watercolor basket of flowers with larger blooms springing up from either side the embodiment of Youth, indeed, even while we are reminded that "the golden hours are sliding fast away"! Delivered as a "tribute of love and affection"