Samuel Gifford 1829 British Math Notebook (2) with Fraktur Writing The Perfectly Good Cynics Calendar with Astronomical Attachment I have become super enamored

I have become super enamored of this type of old carved wood folk articulated or jointed figures

with some aging/cracking (but no chipping) to the black paint only

There are lots of gorgeous old weathered wooden ones out there

patient grinder he looks to be

made even better by the free-hand painting of his eyes and paws

Samuel Gifford 1829 British Math Notebook (2) with Fraktur Writing The Perfectly Good Cynics Calendar with Astronomical Attachment I have become super enamoredI have long been eyeing antique school notebooks, both relating to the study of math and writing calligraphy, and finally found a lovely set of five of them from a seller in England, which I am listing individually. This is one of two hard backed math notebooks with marbleized paper covers and printed endpapers with "A Collection of Arithmetical Tables for the Use of Schools" of a Samuel Gifford studying at Mr. Heale's Academy in Sherborne. The first