1843 "Bread Book" milking stool with minor losses to the

with minor losses to the paper

I especially like that he has one extra large black spot at the middle of his forehead surrounding a nail

Photos show most of pages with watercolor illustrations and a few without

amplifying a sense of bareness (as well as bearness

M Kensinger

1843 "Bread Book" milking stool with minor losses to theI bought this one just for the cover, with Bread Book handwritten in dark graphite letters against thick brown paper, which is darkened by stains across half of it, perhaps from oil spilled while baking! it appears definitely to have been the log order book of a baker, as the handwritten lists inside are for cakes and pies and crackers and loaves of bread by the dozen. Dated 1843 with a mix of filled and blank pages and, as an object, quite teeming