Very Sweet 19th C. Handmade Notebook with Lots of Animal Drawings kitchen decor View detail photos for a

View detail photos for a sense of the amazing surface on this old tramp art "crown of thorns" cross

but have since learned there is a long history of vessels like this--the earliest example British and dating back to the 1300s--with holes around the lip

with hand-carved drain

and I think it would have been used as a pill box

which she’s carefully labeled

Very Sweet 19th C. Handmade Notebook with Lots of Animal Drawings kitchen decor View detail photos for aThis is a very charming small notebook filled largely with graphite drawings of animals, plus a watercolor cow on the cover, a couple of pages of clipped prints, and a print on pink paper on the back cover: "No Breakfast for Growler!" Personally, I think the drawing of the elk with sea behind him and the drawing of the two lions in the forest are small masterpieces, so I've shown them first; otherwise photo following the pages in order. 5 7 8" x 3 15