Louis Kirk's 1860 Leather and Hand-marbled Bill Holder with Month + Alphabet + Sundries Tabs plastic figure 8x10 1/2”

8x10 1/2”

) and a "gourmand" tethered to a pillar to be held off from the table by a satyr who is about to feast

Woven of sweetgrass and dyed ash splint

and signed off with a proper "good bye" and then an H

but which I assume notes the maker and detail the embroideries and their use

Louis Kirk's 1860 Leather and Hand-marbled Bill Holder with Month + Alphabet + Sundries Tabs plastic figure 8x10 1/2”I find this so beautiful just as an object, and if one were fairly gentle with it, it could be put to use again as an organizer. The exterior is leather with marbled paper border on the face, and more marbled paper over the top of the back. Inside, lovely blue fabric covering divided sections, trimmed in black, each labeled in gold lettering with the month letters of the alphabet and terminating with "Sundries" at the rear. With "Louis Kirk, July 9,