Carved Folk Art Stone Bible with Sacred Heart (With Two Small Repairs) antique trick cards This fun and wonderful thing

This fun and wonderful thing is a hand-written obituary from 1889

8 1/4" t x 7" w x 1/2" thick

" so perhaps the latter

3 1/8" long x 2 1/4" tall x 5/16" wide

Sold as found under glass in the period frame found it in

Carved Folk Art Stone Bible with Sacred Heart (With Two Small Repairs) antique trick cards This fun and wonderful thingI keep an eye out but this is actually this first carved stone book I've found, and definitely meant to represent a bible, with sacred heart in high relief across the front. There is a finely carved border around the perimeter on both front and back as well as three rows of three lines on the spine, and what I assume are the initials of the carver, AD, at the bottom left corner of the heart, which kicks a bit in the that direction! I believe the super