Miss Fanny Williams's (Stonington, CT) 1834 School Register With Beautiful Tally Marks and Poetic Insertions Italian folk art and would be beautiful now

and would be beautiful now filled with a big pile of berries

but easily missed

but a new mat and great  frame would really make it sing

The exterior is glazed a wonderful light green

with all of its original components (less the paints and pots and brushes that would have been acquired to fill it

Miss Fanny Williams's (Stonington, CT) 1834 School Register With Beautiful Tally Marks and Poetic Insertions Italian folk art and would be beautiful nowJust a handful of pages here, but I find this quite special. I first grabbed it for the two page spread shown in the first photo the most beautiful and precise set of tally marks I think I've ever seen, tracking the attendance of a group of young male students in the class of Miss Fanny Williams at the District 13 school in Stonington, CT, 1834. But then, digging in, I discovered a few other moments here that bring Miss Fanny very much to life: