From Hog Butchering to Apple Varieties to Family Chronology, William Gimler's 1830s-40s Pocket Ledger puzzle lid with the cast also including

with the cast also including William Shatner

with a few small pin holes in the velvet and one stitch on the star that appears to have come loose and then was knotted back into place

and the pinking of those downturned lips

to which the chalkware bull i just listed might make just the right companion (

From Hog Butchering to Apple Varieties to Family Chronology, William Gimler's 1830s-40s Pocket Ledger puzzle lid with the cast also includingThere are few things that give me as much pleasure as opening a notebook that I can tell from the paper cover has about 200 years on it in this case the cover a pretty soft blue, and the notebook kept by a William Gimler, spanning the period 1834 to 1852. Gimler was clearly a farmer and here tracks, sporadically it seems, bushels of oats and wheat and corn sold, as well as pork butchered, including noting the weight of Joseph Figley's hog (163 pounds)