Charming Small 1840s Cloth Covered Scrapbook/Ledger salad servers One sees quite a lot

One sees quite a lot of "Native American-inspired" drawings

with these dense patches of fine hair-like lines along the borders between bodies

and with the real stakes of winning one's opponents marbles for keeps

with dramatic black and white etching illustrations throughout as well as a number of full page maps

The giraffe has jointed legs as well as nails for horns and tail (painted with the same pattern detail as the rest of him)

Charming Small 1840s Cloth Covered Scrapbook/Ledger salad servers One sees quite a lotA very sweet little thing, it appears this notebook was first used for recording expenses, then repurposed (possibly recovered at that point in this charming woven plaid fabric with separate strip covering the spine) as a scrapbook for assorted clippings. I love that it begins with the fable of the tortoise and the hare, and then on the next page these great X's and squares in watercolor framing "A Child's Prayer." The remaining clippings are quite