Please Pay My Debts + Ladies to Meet: Double-sided Note from Grandfather to Grandson, c. Mid 1800s folk art frog and I believe made of

and I believe made of oak

) I am not an expert but am pretty certain this is Ottoman

it is the blur of the mother's cropped face at upper right (feeling all the more shadowy/elusive to the naked eye) that really makes this

some of them hand-colored in sepia

A perfect box for all sorts of souvenirs indeed

Please Pay My Debts + Ladies to Meet: Double-sided Note from Grandfather to Grandson, c. Mid 1800s folk art frog and I believe made ofI'm spending more tine looking at old letters and documents in the interest of turning up quite singular and special ones like this one, which is many things at once, and provokes a range of empathies, too. It is a note from a grandfather to his grandson describing his expenses (rent, coals, "my society", washing and "you will see what I have to find myself in meat, shoes and cloath [sic"]. Which "leaves me about six pence three farthing a day to