1903 Heart Shaped Love Token Metalsmith's Paperweight with Inset Photo painted folk art animal The head itself is painted

The head itself is painted a good dark green

made of walnut I believe

And then these swans

showing plenty of rusting and erosion

this one I presume unfinished

1903 Heart Shaped Love Token Metalsmith's Paperweight with Inset Photo painted folk art animal The head itself is paintedAmong my very favorite Brimfield finds, I purchased this one from a South Carolina based dealer who has been the source of a number of treasures. I've never seen the likes of it before, a paperweight with photograph embedded perfectly framed by cutout heart inside the larger brass heart. Surely a love token, and surely made by a metalsmith, in 1903, I presume for his sweetheart Carrie (or Earrie? but I'm thinking maybe he just added an extra flourish