Set of Three 1880s Connecticut River Barge Operator's Ledgers with Pages and Pages of Satisfying Hatch Marks carved parlor mirror with carved lines to delineate

with carved lines to delineate inches and the variations in color done with some sort of dye

Just a fun object

11" x 11 5/8" x 1 1/4"

Eliot Clark was a precocious artist who became a landscape painter in the late American Impressionist style

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Set of Three 1880s Connecticut River Barge Operator's Ledgers with Pages and Pages of Satisfying Hatch Marks carved parlor mirror with carved lines to delineateHonestly, I purchased these because I found the handwritten labels on their fronts and the pages and pages of careful hatchmark tallying inside very visually satisfying. But then I figured out they were logs kept by a barge operator, with each of those hatchmarks I believe representing a trip taken load carried down the Connecticut River. I haven't dug too much into them, but each ledger contains records for the accounts of different individuals, with