Beautiful Thick Antique Japanese Merchant Ledger with Rope Binding rubber puppet Likely this was a result

Likely this was a result of his association with James Whistler and his painting in 1900 at Gloucester

The fact that a few different companies produced these

with original stopper

quite a sweet barn

Massachusetts that included mid-century furnishings and a huge collection of animal-related art and objects from around the world

Beautiful Thick Antique Japanese Merchant Ledger with Rope Binding rubber puppet Likely this was a resultThis is a an old Japanase merchant ledger book that I believe would be known as a daifuku cho, with sumi ink characters on the front and back covers, handwritten tabs dividing sections, and many of its many many pages filled with ink writing. It is bound at the top with rope; I believe the binding would also be used for hanging it, as I understand it such that it and other ledgers could be quickly gathered up if there was a fire or emergency. Later