Some Time, in Some Way, Will Come Your Wedding Day, Handmade Friendship Token of Sorts with Fabulous Fancy Lettering milton bradley kindergarten materials catalog and it's a resourcefully made

and it's a resourcefully made one too: turning it over reveals that it was fashioned from a hand-written letter (still largely readable

Silk thread on silk ground

one lower right)

jewel like thing

Some Time, in Some Way, Will Come Your Wedding Day, Handmade Friendship Token of Sorts with Fabulous Fancy Lettering milton bradley kindergarten materials catalog and it's a resourcefully madeI found this in Gloucester, one town over from Essex, MA where it originated a good hundred years ago at least. And a quick search turns up numerous generations of John H. Wilkins's from in and around Essex county, so surely the John who "composed" this had plenty of friends from Essex. Whether created immediately in advance of this particular lovely friend's wedding as a wedding gift, or in the days of just imagining it, I don't know for sure though