1838 Portsmouth, NY Alphabetical Ledger with Hand-marbled Cover beautiful doll including for the way the

including for the way the two shiny silver metal plates frame either side of the recessed tree-like form's "trunk"

it's locked tight

is a really striking rich orange with hand-painted giant yellow lily and graphic black leaves

brown satin  I believe

but he's wonderfully homely

1838 Portsmouth, NY Alphabetical Ledger with Hand-marbled Cover beautiful doll including for the way theRare in my experience to come across an alphabetically tabbed ledger like this, and such a beautiful one, filled with the names of old Portsmouth, NH families someone from these parts would surely recognize. The letters of the alphabetical index are printed individually cut from somewhere and adhered one by one to the edges of the pages, with the pages to follow trimmed in order that each letter be visible from the front. To me all those letters lined