To Give a Fine Color to Mahogany and To Make a Strip Carpet, Earlier 19th C. Handwritten Instructions striking decoy Very good I believe antique

Very good I believe antique condition with wear

a bit of minor roughness/loss to the bottom edge of the copper plate

minor bends

5" long x 1 3/4" tall x 1 3/4" wide

One often sees children's mugs from this period bearing phrases beginning with "A Present" - i

To Give a Fine Color to Mahogany and To Make a Strip Carpet, Earlier 19th C. Handwritten Instructions striking decoy Very good I believe antiqueSince finding a wonderful "Reipt" (receipt, widely used instead of recipe in the 19th century) "to tempur [sic] edge tools" some months ago, I have been keeping a close eye out for other examples of manuscript instructions of a related nature, which feel both so immediate, as if just being passed along from one person to another, and also so much of their time and place. And not just one but two here on the reverse instructions for making a "strip