Charming Small 1840s Cloth Covered Scrapbook/Ledger folk art penguin with one tiny nail hole

with one tiny nail hole in the wood at upper right

I'd never actually sat down and used one of these before

and feel grateful

but it also might have been the all purpose go-to for all sorts off mixing and stirring

These are heavy

Charming Small 1840s Cloth Covered Scrapbook/Ledger folk art penguin with one tiny nail holeA very sweet little thing, it appears this notebook was first used for recording expenses, then repurposed (possibly recovered at that point in this charming woven plaid fabric with separate strip covering the spine) as a scrapbook for assorted clippings. I love that it begins with the fable of the tortoise and the hare, and then on the next page these great X's and squares in watercolor framing "A Child's Prayer." The remaining clippings are quite