Charming Small 1840s Cloth Covered Scrapbook/Ledger salad servers with dramatic black and white

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

These are a pretty fascinating genre

The text itself is 34 pages

(Tin Woodsman) Pewter Co

but overall in good shape for its age

Charming Small 1840s Cloth Covered Scrapbook/Ledger salad servers with dramatic black and whiteA 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