Scarce, Wonderful, Much Worn and Torn 1844 New National Primer with Hand-sewn Repair Everywhere holy cross together completing the year

together completing the year

I've always been a bit amazed by the prices these old folk art sock/stocking cats command

which I might hang near a window to say hello to birds at the feeder (or to stare down the squirrels

and looks like there is a bit of paper under each medal with a campers name handwritten on it

tightly bound and very lovely

Scarce, Wonderful, Much Worn and Torn 1844 New National Primer with Hand-sewn Repair Everywhere holy cross together completing the yearThis one is quite a tattered state, no great surprise for a paper cover reader 180+ plus years old, really, and one which was clearly very much read and studied. What makes it especially beautiful to me though in addition to its marvelous engravings of insects and fishes, birds and objects, clocks and presidents and historic events including the battles of Lexington and Bunker Hill are the hand stitched mends repairing tears to most every page, and