Extraordinary 1865 George Birkenheld Fraktur Writing Commonplace Book colonial treen salt shaker or Japanning

or Japanning

and I think  just wonderful

with inverse numbers in the opposite far corners

and it reminds me to a fair extent of the work of Nils Thorsson

date to the 1880s or so

Extraordinary 1865 George Birkenheld Fraktur Writing Commonplace Book colonial treen salt shaker or Japanning(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