Stunning C. 1820s-40s British Mensuration Notebook with Poetic Fraktur Headers Throughout folk art thread winder Small dings

Small dings

framed size 10

In stark contrast to the fancier scrimshawing one typically sees on whale teeth and the like

but one is long lost--reflected in the price of this piece

with an elongated beak perfectly balanced with the elongated body pointed in the other direction

Stunning C. 1820s-40s British Mensuration Notebook with Poetic Fraktur Headers Throughout folk art thread winder Small dingsIt's been quite a long time since I had a notebook approaching the beauty of this one and I've never had one with SO MANY boldly and ornately penned fraktur type headers, populating more of its 81 pages than not. The headers sometimes filling the entire page are unusual, too, and to my sensibilities often quite poetic: "of the Regular Bodies," "Drains and Canals," "Of Bricklayers' and Masons Work, "Directions for Measuring Quarries and Coalheaps,"