Posted 02/17/2015 3:48 pm
Love Tokens often commemorate "hatches," "matches," "dispatches," and to this list I'll add "detaches," "disbursements," and "drafts." By these tags we mean births, marriages, deaths, partings (of the sweet sorrow kind), gifts, and military service (by choice or otherwise), all of which may precipitate a keepsake for those left behind to remember those who have gone on ahead. Here is one of my favorites on an old English half penny engraved at the dawn of the age of manned aeronautics. Does anyone know who these lovebirds were? It is obvious the match was one made on Earth but which we hope ascended heavenward as the figure implies.
