SOLD Most Beautiful Hand-Marbled Set of Six Sunday School Attendance Registers, 1880s, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania folk art ruler and also love the freeform-ness

and also love the freeform-ness to the lettering

I'd guess this oversized reproduction was made in the mid-20th century (though I have found no others like it) and was beautifully done--solid bronze

A beauty of an old tabletop chest

and table of remedies in front of them too

SOLD Most Beautiful Hand-Marbled Set of Six Sunday School Attendance Registers, 1880s, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania folk art ruler and also love the freeform-nessBetween their hand marbled covers and the paper labels at the center of those covers, these are, as a set, just about the loveliest old notebooks I've ever seen. Who cares what's inside, I just want to lay them out and look at them! What they are is Sunday School attendance registers from the 1880s, specifically "One Year Class Books For Sunday School Teachers's Minutes" published by the American Sunday School Union, Philadelphia. A few pages of