To Give a Fine Color to Mahogany and To Make a Strip Carpet, Earlier 19th C. Handwritten Instructions striking decoy Great carved and pink painted

Great carved and pink painted face as well--which I especially like as it makes me think of the maker

5" long x 1 3/4" tall x 1 3/4" wide

One often sees children's mugs from this period bearing phrases beginning with "A Present" - i

Its survival feels pretty miraculous too--easy to miss that this is anything more than a plain slip of paper

To Give a Fine Color to Mahogany and To Make a Strip Carpet, Earlier 19th C. Handwritten Instructions striking decoy Great carved and pink paintedSince finding a wonderful "Reipt" (receipt, widely used instead of recipe in the 19th century) "to tempur [sic] edge tools" some months ago, I have been keeping a close eye out for other examples of manuscript instructions of a related nature, which feel both so immediate, as if just being passed along from one person to another, and also so much of their time and place. And not just one but two here on the reverse instructions for making a "strip