Robinson's Progressive Table Book, 1862, with Wonderful Hand-colored bottle cap folk art the other boats in the

the other boats in the background

which I believe came out of a Michigan collection but which I found in Maine

which seems none to far off from these paper wrapped wood clothes pins--both make do in a very true sense

but plenty they could spell out without them

Too pretty to resist

Robinson's Progressive Table Book, 1862, with Wonderful Hand-colored bottle cap folk art the other boats in theThis is a total charmer of an old school book teaching counting, adding, multiplication, etc, with wonderful graphics throughout: five pears here, seven bee hives there; two bunnies, nine chairs, one excellent hand held abacus! (That abacus alone sold me on this.) A very good many of them were carefully hand colored, as are a number of half page engravings, with the color much better in hand than in my photos. I've had one or two similar to this over