Very Sweet 19th C. Handmade Notebook with Lots of Animal Drawings kitchen decor View detail photos for a

View detail photos for a sense of the amazing surface on this old tramp art "crown of thorns" cross

I might guess there is some social/political commentary going on here too

ever-ready companion

whose drunken escapades are detailed in the story of the "The Redeemed One" surrounding her in the antique scrapbook from which she was at some point cut out--but she does look like one who has been through some things

and I think it would have been used as a pill box

Very Sweet 19th C. Handmade Notebook with Lots of Animal Drawings kitchen decor View detail photos for aThis is a very charming small notebook filled largely with graphite drawings of animals, plus a watercolor cow on the cover, a couple of pages of clipped prints, and a print on pink paper on the back cover: "No Breakfast for Growler!" Personally, I think the drawing of the elk with sea behind him and the drawing of the two lions in the forest are small masterpieces, so I've shown them first; otherwise photo following the pages in order. 5 7 8" x 3 15