1853 Diary with Many Years of Varied Entries boxwood and brass The larger measures 5 3/8"

The larger measures 5 3/8" in diameter and 1 3/8" tall

Sight: 11 1/2" x 8 5/8"

to the lacing up the front of her bodice

and then this terrific budding tree at center with nest perched in the crook of one branch

1853 Diary with Many Years of Varied Entries boxwood and brass The larger measures 5 3/8"It is impossible for me to walk away from things like this, with so much life, so many stories and so many years! embedded in them. This seems to have begun its life in 1853 as an E. P Chase' s day book, but there is writing in it in a few different hands, and much of it from the 1880s, when E. P. or someone else took to using it to record the deaths of family members and friends and of the "old horse!" most of these having no relationship to the day