1886 + 1888 Almanacs with Handwritten Daily Diaries hand-painted wooden animal showing the very very extensive

showing the very very extensive and very intensive rasping of the iron used to give it scales

and Zanzibar copal resin

This is one I'd be especially happy to hold on to

with definite age to it

1886 + 1888 Almanacs with Handwritten Daily Diaries hand-painted wooden animal showing the very very extensiveI find these very tender things and the perfect thing to share with a young person who thinks life is hard: day after day of mopping, and baking, washing dishes and chopping wood, and killing hogs just before Christmas, with the weather report tending to correspond to what chores could be completed on any given day. One is an almanac from 1886, the other 1888, the former completed for just for part of the year, the other all of the way through. I just