To Give a Fine Color to Mahogany and To Make a Strip Carpet, Earlier 19th C. Handwritten Instructions striking decoy Dated 1928 I believe and

Dated 1928 I believe and in excellent condition

--but are in overall very good antique condition

a bit of minor roughness/loss to the bottom edge of the copper plate

Its survival feels pretty miraculous too--easy to miss that this is anything more than a plain slip of paper

To Give a Fine Color to Mahogany and To Make a Strip Carpet, Earlier 19th C. Handwritten Instructions striking decoy Dated 1928 I believe andSince finding a wonderful "Reipt" (receipt, widely used instead of recipe in the 19th century) "to tempur [sic] edge tools" some months ago, I have been keeping a close eye out for other examples of manuscript instructions of a related nature, which feel both so immediate, as if just being passed along from one person to another, and also so much of their time and place. And not just one but two here on the reverse instructions for making a "strip