Huge Antique Ledger Page with 1940s Pattern Drawings and Arithmetic tally but pretty hard not to

but pretty hard not to project a story onto this one I think

I've had a few different mid-century Lapid Israel vases and really loved each of them---reminscent of Scandinavian and West German modernist ceramics

) Not a perfectly round piece among them

9 3/8" x 7 3/8"

all blank except for one whose first page reads Almanac

Huge Antique Ledger Page with 1940s Pattern Drawings and Arithmetic tally but pretty hard not toThis page I know came out of an oversized ledger dated 1895 which was originally used for maintaining the register of the National Amalgamated Society of Coopers a trade union representing coopers in the United Kingdom and Ireland. In the 1940s, however, Douglas and Nancy Webster, two school children, took hold of it and used it for their own purposes! I just love the colorful pattern drawings on this page, looking rather like quilt squares, and