Hail Stones from Great Storm of 1870, Scarce Knowlton Brothers Stereoview latched metal box The signature at bottom right

The signature at bottom right is pretty good too

no losses or damage at all that I can see and nothing at all loose or broken

One does wonder what all is going on inside the “hole in the wall" pictured

I just love the look of this old sap bucket

I'm guessing this old box was made for a specific purpose

Hail Stones from Great Storm of 1870, Scarce Knowlton Brothers Stereoview latched metal box The signature at bottom rightOne of two stereoviews today, both among my very favorites I've had. At first glance I took these for a cluster of button mushrooms, but a closer look, and the printed list on the reverse of the card, reveals these as a collection of hail stones from "the Great Storm of 1870." The compounding of the strange phenomenon that is hail with the fact of these particular hail stones having been captured as documents of a specific "Great Storm" before melting