This wallet from the DAR museum looks brand new. The colors are amazing, as is the handwork, but embroidered on the wallet is the date 1776. Do you think your work will survive for over 200 years?

From the DAR Museum:

"Robert Chew's folding wallet has four pockets and is lined with olive green wool. The outside of the wallet is decorated with a flame-stitch, scallop-shaped motif in shades of violet, green, and rose wool.

Robert lived in Virginia and was a First Lieutenant by the end of the Revolutionary War. The inscribed date 1776 is when he first joined the minute service."

(Photos from the DAR Museum)

Robert Chew's Folding Wallet from 1776