J.H Brown's c. 1830s Mother Goose's Melodies, Brown Paper Cover and Pencil Drawn Additions cherokee the map depicts the North

the map depicts the North Branch coal mine in Garrett County

There is a slit at top for a plate of glass to slide through (no glass is included but easy to have one cut)

and what a marvelously strange thing

I can say that one can deeply feel the skill and care of the maker on this one

this is a nice old set of 49 color cubes housed in a great old O'Brien Brothers tobacco/cigar box

J.H Brown's c. 1830s Mother Goose's Melodies, Brown Paper Cover and Pencil Drawn Additions cherokee the map depicts the NorthYou know I've got a weakness for early children's books, with this rare copy of Mother Goose's Melodies filled with charming engravings dating to the 1830s or so, but of course my even greater weakness if for how such books were personalized by the children who owned them and this one has the hand of a young J. H Brown all over it! Mostly, he added tiny hats to people and animals, but toward the end he seems to have learned how to write, and so Miss