Colorfully Crayoned Wooly Mammoth and More, F.M Spitzer's Much Animated Copy of Primary Geograpy, 1870 old carved doll with pontil at the bottom

with pontil at the bottom

I've been paying some attention to old advertising paperweights of late

I think the design of this c

I really like the blur of the heads of the horses here

If without horses around to care for

Colorfully Crayoned Wooly Mammoth and More, F.M Spitzer's Much Animated Copy of Primary Geograpy, 1870 old carved doll with pontil at the bottomThis is one of two old school books purchased for their endpaper drawings today examples like this make really happy, and I'll never resist them. This is a c. 1870 copy of The Eclectic Series Primary Geography, with a young F. M Spitzer having had it in his hands in 1888 and doing with it as he wished! The crayon colored, brightly striped wooly mammoth on the inside back cover surrounded by doodles is what really does it for me (and which I'd be