Huge Antique Ledger Page with 1940s Pattern Drawings and Arithmetic tally all blank except for one

all blank except for one whose first page reads Almanac

a beautiful big clipper ship

a few small scattered stains and a bit of unevenness to the ink saturation

as something of a style icon too

and I think the decoration is just fantastic

Huge Antique Ledger Page with 1940s Pattern Drawings and Arithmetic tally all blank except for oneThis page I know came out of an oversized ledger dated 1895 which was originally used for maintaining the register of the National Amalgamated Society of Coopers a trade union representing coopers in the United Kingdom and Ireland. In the 1940s, however, Douglas and Nancy Webster, two school children, took hold of it and used it for their own purposes! I just love the colorful pattern drawings on this page, looking rather like quilt squares, and