Emma Dilmore's Late 19th C. Double Sided Card with Excellent Figures, House, Writing blessing perhaps original to the making

perhaps original to the making

comprised of 8 laid paper folios written on in black ink that burned through in a few spots

your old side pardner

which I've divided into sets--so many fabulous little animals--and here one person too

The leather hinge connecting the lid to base on the back side is mostly split but one wouldn't know it when closed

Emma Dilmore's Late 19th C. Double Sided Card with Excellent Figures, House, Writing blessing perhaps original to the makingPure joy. I am forever looking for antique children's drawings like this, but finding them rarer and rarer to come by and to my eye the handwritten lettering on this one and the content of it, too! is just about as good as it gets. Pretty fantastic alphabet following Emma's name (I believe with an upside down M) on one side with woman and chicken and house with especially excellent array of widow treatments; and then on the other, another excellent