Sweet Old Composition Notebook with Scattered Delights bird-shaped built in 1884

built in 1884

10 1/4 x 6 3/8 x 3 and in very good condition

looking proud and a bit defiant

learning that Captain Ivory was quite a fixture and legend on Martha’s Vineyard

Sweet Old Composition Notebook with Scattered Delights bird-shaped built in 1884This one is not full, but there are a number of pages in it I really love and would be inclined to extract and frame up starting with the first page, which appears to be a list of license plate numbers, each framed with a bubble, I imagine recorded during a road trip to pass the time. (To me it reads like a conceptual contemporary art drawing.; also interesting for having been done in the fairly early day of plates, NY being the first state to adopt