Robinson's Progressive Table Book, 1862, with Wonderful Hand-colored bottle cap folk art Pure love for this box

Pure love for this box

but plenty they could spell out without them

which seems none to far off from these paper wrapped wood clothes pins--both make do in a very true sense

the other boats in the background

or just feel good to hold on to--so I thought I might start occasionally listing a group of a few little things together as one thing

Robinson's Progressive Table Book, 1862, with Wonderful Hand-colored bottle cap folk art Pure love for this boxThis is a total charmer of an old school book teaching counting, adding, multiplication, etc, with wonderful graphics throughout: five pears here, seven bee hives there; two bunnies, nine chairs, one excellent hand held abacus! (That abacus alone sold me on this.) A very good many of them were carefully hand colored, as are a number of half page engravings, with the color much better in hand than in my photos. I've had one or two similar to this over