"'Tis strange, 'tis very strange," soliloquised the Rev. Mr. Bland, as he paced the room with great agitation, and his venerable and usually placid countenance exhibited traces of feverish anxiety........

~~~~Above is an exerpt from 'The Broken Heart'...one of the many stories in my 1830 Monthly Museum that I was so inspired to read from today. I have done a bit of cleaning, and while setting a new c1830 vingette here in the Museum, I was all the while contemplating who the precious souls were who originally once filled the sillouettes that I was primping and petting.


~~~~ Shown is a wonderful late 1830s embroidered blue silk day gown for a little girl, oh...mabey 5 or 6 years old, shown together with a gorgeous cream silk bonnet drawn over wide whalebone canes.....its most likely closer to 1838-9ish, but fits with this gown nicely~ its original papered bandbox can be seen on the floor to the left, and to the right, part of a c1825-9 white linen pelisse (coat) with blue piping~ this fit for a girl age 9 or 10.