Antique Love Note From May Basket penguin container I recently found another postcard

I recently found another postcard featuring a baby having just spilled a bottle of black ink all over the place

nicely matted (the cream matte appears to be linen or silk) and in a simple black metal frame with a hook on the back for hanging

Beyond its calculating function

I was pretty excited to find this little antique French reversal drawing

such that the lid lifts all the way off

Antique Love Note From May Basket penguin container I recently found another postcardJust a little scrap of a thing, but once I read it I could not leave it, and when things like this have already endured more than a hundred years, how could one not feel responsible for ushering them into future??? Here I come a mile or more To hang this May basket on your door I have run so hard I am almost dead For fear you would be to bed I will give you this ring in token of love I say by all above now catch me if you can. What a flirtation! I