Resonant Advertising Cover, Fearless Threshing Machines, Cobleskill NY 1880 Postmark ruby-rub can but I’m not quite sure

but I’m not quite sure what else this very lovely turned wooden case would have been made to hold

below the under box

so when I found both together in this one

and then about 15 pages of loose correspondence

At the bottom is a handwritten comment by an instructor affirming Francess' accomplishment: "very nicely and carefully drawn

Resonant Advertising Cover, Fearless Threshing Machines, Cobleskill NY 1880 Postmark ruby-rub can but I’m not quite sureJust the name "Fearless Threshing Machine" in bold black lettering sold me on this envelope, feeling especially resonant at the moment, and the graphic, with apparently fearless man sandwiched between horses and machine, is pretty great too plus the just right name of the manufacturer: Minard Harder. With beautiful black ink calligraphy addressing the cover to a M. A Sprice(r?) of Unadilla Forks, NY; postmarked 1880 from Cobbleskill, NY, with a 3 cent