Wonderful, One of a Kind c. 1870 Complete Perpetual Calendar with Handwritten Notes Across Generations kitchen containers and certainly iconic feeling

and certainly iconic feeling

The color was applied by stencil

I especially love the banded decoration and strong use of black on this one

I found this little chest in Upstate New York and was--am--totally charmed by it

with surface scratches and little dings to the wood all over

Wonderful, One of a Kind c. 1870 Complete Perpetual Calendar with Handwritten Notes Across Generations kitchen containers and certainly iconic feelingAmong my very favorite recent finds, this perpetual calendar dates to no later than 1870 or so, as there a number of dated handwritten notes on fronts and backs of the monthly inserts, recording exceptional weather events in the early 1870s (snow on Oct 18 19, 1871, big snow storm March 31, 1872, etc.) Especially beautiful to me is that another set of notes were added in the 1940s "Brian's birthday" on Feb 15, the return of Ian Buchanan from WW2 on