Massive Skowhegan, Maine Druggist's Prescriptions Ledger, 1890s, Fuller than Full green Chinese plate & Houston Lowe in Dayton

& Houston Lowe in Dayton

a German artist and sculptor best known for his exquisitely crafted--and highly collectible--series of 24 small brass figurines representing Judaic characters

so needs to lean against something in order to stand upright with the exposed iron end tipped up but otherwise can just be set somewhere and would make a pretty great paper weight

very finely cut and woven

which seem like little nail holes

Massive Skowhegan, Maine Druggist's Prescriptions Ledger, 1890s, Fuller than Full green Chinese plate & Houston Lowe in DaytonThe hand marbled cover, together with great bulk, of this antique ledger sold me on it before I even opened it. Then I did, to find hundreds of pages completely covered truly no spare inch with pasted in apothecary prescriptions, spanning the period 1892 1897 from what I have discerned. The majority of them, and the paper label adhered to the cover, are from George Cushing's Drug Store in Skowhegan Maine, not very far from where I found it, but there