Stunning C. 1820s-40s British Mensuration Notebook with Poetic Fraktur Headers Throughout folk art thread winder Read Strong's full bio here

Read Strong's full bio here

with an elongated beak perfectly balanced with the elongated body pointed in the other direction

I'd just prop this one is in the window

and with what look to me to be mostly old hand-cut copper nails holding it all together

In stark contrast to the fancier scrimshawing one typically sees on whale teeth and the like

Stunning C. 1820s-40s British Mensuration Notebook with Poetic Fraktur Headers Throughout folk art thread winder Read Strong's full bio hereIt's been quite a long time since I had a notebook approaching the beauty of this one and I've never had one with SO MANY boldly and ornately penned fraktur type headers, populating more of its 81 pages than not. The headers sometimes filling the entire page are unusual, too, and to my sensibilities often quite poetic: "of the Regular Bodies," "Drains and Canals," "Of Bricklayers' and Masons Work, "Directions for Measuring Quarries and Coalheaps,"