Huge Antique Ledger Page with 1940s Pattern Drawings and Arithmetic tally as something of a style

as something of a style icon too

I've had a few different mid-century Lapid Israel vases and really loved each of them---reminscent of Scandinavian and West German modernist ceramics

a few small scattered stains and a bit of unevenness to the ink saturation

a beautiful big clipper ship

Photos show a few choice pages first

Huge Antique Ledger Page with 1940s Pattern Drawings and Arithmetic tally as something of a styleThis page I know came out of an oversized ledger dated 1895 which was originally used for maintaining the register of the National Amalgamated Society of Coopers a trade union representing coopers in the United Kingdom and Ireland. In the 1940s, however, Douglas and Nancy Webster, two school children, took hold of it and used it for their own purposes! I just love the colorful pattern drawings on this page, looking rather like quilt squares, and