SOLD Most Beautiful Hand-Marbled Set of Six Sunday School Attendance Registers, 1880s, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania folk art ruler picturing a ginger haired woman

picturing a ginger haired woman in fabulous green robe and hat (and bright red lipstick) sitting at her easel

and also love the freeform-ness to the lettering

I'd guess this oversized reproduction was made in the mid-20th century (though I have found no others like it) and was beautifully done--solid bronze

a mix of shiny and matte

SOLD Most Beautiful Hand-Marbled Set of Six Sunday School Attendance Registers, 1880s, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania folk art ruler picturing a ginger haired womanBetween their hand marbled covers and the paper labels at the center of those covers, these are, as a set, just about the loveliest old notebooks I've ever seen. Who cares what's inside, I just want to lay them out and look at them! What they are is Sunday School attendance registers from the 1880s, specifically "One Year Class Books For Sunday School Teachers's Minutes" published by the American Sunday School Union, Philadelphia. A few pages of