J.H Brown's c. 1830s Mother Goose's Melodies, Brown Paper Cover and Pencil Drawn Additions vintage disney the publisher of “YOURSELF

the publisher of “YOURSELF

This beautiful sculptural curiosity is a Japanese wood and papier mache fragment--half of a rib cage--from what I presume was a full body model of a human skeleton

and then behind bars inside the cage

" And then on the front of the box

I believe this charmer was most likely produced by the Hubley Manufacturing Co of Lancaster

J.H Brown's c. 1830s Mother Goose's Melodies, Brown Paper Cover and Pencil Drawn Additions vintage disney the publisher of “YOURSELFYou know I've got a weakness for early children's books, with this rare copy of Mother Goose's Melodies filled with charming engravings dating to the 1830s or so, but of course my even greater weakness if for how such books were personalized by the children who owned them and this one has the hand of a young J. H Brown all over it! Mostly, he added tiny hats to people and animals, but toward the end he seems to have learned how to write, and so Miss