Extraordinary 1865 George Birkenheld Fraktur Writing Commonplace Book colonial treen salt shaker you must have some Water

you must have some Water in your Claret

all of which work great

with inverse numbers in the opposite far corners

and I think  just wonderful

this guy seems to have been the 107th creation of what I believe was quite a small company

Extraordinary 1865 George Birkenheld Fraktur Writing Commonplace Book colonial treen salt shaker you must have some Water(I've documented the heck out of this one as I think it's so extraordinary; photos don't show every page but I could't help but to include a lot!) As you can see, I've had an eye out lately for 19th century school notebooks, both math and calligraphy, all of which I find exquisitely beautiful. But this I think is even more spectacular a manuscript known as a "commonplace book," common in the 1800s, especially among students, readers and scholars, as