Very Beautiful Object, 1830 Pennsylvania German Catechism Book with Gorgeous Papered Cover and Striped Pages kindergarten history Constructed of tightly coiled grass

Constructed of tightly coiled grass and in near perfect condition

Sliding open the lid of this box to find it filled with these old bone gaming chips was

Stamped (embossed) Rod A Bachelor

and then a thin strip at the waist holding them together

theorem-style watercolors of fruit I've just listed

Very Beautiful Object, 1830 Pennsylvania German Catechism Book with Gorgeous Papered Cover and Striped Pages kindergarten history Constructed of tightly coiled grassI like all different sorts of books for all different sorts of reasons, but in the case of this one it is completely about its formal properties most immediately that hand printed paper cover, making it seem like a wall paper box of the very early and most beautiful variety. (It looks almost like wax resist printing in appearance, with the natural cream of the paper revealed as circles through the applied golden honey color of the cover.) And then