Extraordinary 1865 George Birkenheld Fraktur Writing Commonplace Book colonial treen salt shaker This is a charming antique

This is a charming antique schoolhouse slate chalkboard with a wood frame

or Japanning

and I think  just wonderful

with inverse numbers in the opposite far corners

since it was made with a loop at top for hanging

Extraordinary 1865 George Birkenheld Fraktur Writing Commonplace Book colonial treen salt shaker This is a charming antique(I've documented the heck out of this one as I think it's so extraordinary; photos don't show every page but I could't help but to include a lot!) As you can see, I've had an eye out lately for 19th century school notebooks, both math and calligraphy, all of which I find exquisitely beautiful. But this I think is even more spectacular a manuscript known as a "commonplace book," common in the 1800s, especially among students, readers and scholars, as