From Hog Butchering to Apple Varieties to Family Chronology, William Gimler's 1830s-40s Pocket Ledger fish sculpture Lemon sized - 2 7/8"

Lemon sized - 2 7/8" l x 2" in diameter and in very good condition

and one eye a dash and the other a dot

seemingly untouched since then

with what I believe is the original

As evident from the photos

From Hog Butchering to Apple Varieties to Family Chronology, William Gimler's 1830s-40s Pocket Ledger fish sculpture Lemon sized - 2 7/8"There are few things that give me as much pleasure as opening a notebook that I can tell from the paper cover has about 200 years on it in this case the cover a pretty soft blue, and the notebook kept by a William Gimler, spanning the period 1834 to 1852. Gimler was clearly a farmer and here tracks, sporadically it seems, bushels of oats and wheat and corn sold, as well as pork butchered, including noting the weight of Joseph Figley's hog (163 pounds)