Leaf Studies, Rebecca Pillsbury's 1847 Notebook of Ink-stamped and Labeled Specimens, Nashville, NH antique objects This sweet little pencil drawing

This sweet little pencil drawing really captures the essence of mouse-ness

as if a portrait of a woman stuck

The box shows plenty of wear

8 1/2" long x 5 1/8" wide x 4 1/2" tall

There are a handful of pages where a bottom quarter has been cut out (perhaps to pass a note to another student

Leaf Studies, Rebecca Pillsbury's 1847 Notebook of Ink-stamped and Labeled Specimens, Nashville, NH antique objects This sweet little pencil drawingI was really excited to find this, purchased from a seller in New Hampshire, not far from where it was created close to two centuries ago, in the no longer extant town of Nashville, NH. The work of a Rebecca Pillsbury, inscribed on the front inside cover along with the date, it features fourteen neatly composed pages of ink stamped leaves (sometime looking a lot like graphite rubbings, but I am pretty certain all pressed in ink), with each of the leaf