Helen Dayton's 1899 Notebook with School Work, Paper Dolls, Color Drawings, etc. old painted box textural rich brown body with

textural rich brown body with a mustard glazed middle band with incised patterns

super smooth and I think naturally this variegated warm brown and near black

I just love the silhouette

likely from the ink on the back of an adjacent board upon which it was stacked

Helen Dayton's 1899 Notebook with School Work, Paper Dolls, Color Drawings, etc. old painted box textural rich brown body withI love this 1899 school notebook kept by a Helen Dayton of Watertown, CT, when she was 8 years old or so for many many reasons; really, every page (121 of them!) delivers delights large or small. Most exciting are several pages devoted entirely to colored pencil drawings, in which triangles and boxes and moons and kites and apples and blocks and houses and ladders commingle, sometimes with nothing more than the handwritten label distinguishing one