Leaf Studies, Rebecca Pillsbury's 1847 Notebook of Ink-stamped and Labeled Specimens, Nashville, NH antique objects This sweet little pencil drawing

This sweet little pencil drawing really captures the essence of mouse-ness

Irregularity to the glaze around the top of the lip

but the trailer definitely provides a great platform for arranging and towing along all sorts of things

There are a handful of pages where a bottom quarter has been cut out (perhaps to pass a note to another student

The box shows plenty of wear

Leaf Studies, Rebecca Pillsbury's 1847 Notebook of Ink-stamped and Labeled Specimens, Nashville, NH antique objects This sweet little pencil drawingI was really excited to find this, purchased from a seller in New Hampshire, not far from where it was created close to two centuries ago, in the no longer extant town of Nashville, NH. The work of a Rebecca Pillsbury, inscribed on the front inside cover along with the date, it features fourteen neatly composed pages of ink stamped leaves (sometime looking a lot like graphite rubbings, but I am pretty certain all pressed in ink), with each of the leaf