You Will Never Fail, Earlier 19th Century Manuscript Recipe for Tempering Edge Tools Italian opera painting with excellent aging and wear

with excellent aging and wear to the surfaces

20 sets of cards

One certainly wonders what all happened that year in the life of the Frank Ellis who drew this in 1864--during the Civil War

designed to enable a very bruising thwacking

This owl measures 2 1/2" tall x 2-1/2" wide x 2-1/4" deep and is signed on the bottom with the Gustavsberg hand and "E

You Will Never Fail, Earlier 19th Century Manuscript Recipe for Tempering Edge Tools Italian opera painting with excellent aging and wearA Reipt [I believe meant as receipt, widely used instead of recipe in the 19th century] to tempur [sic] edge tools. Take 5th of tallow, 1 1 2th of hard sope [sic], 1th of beeswax, 1th of horse hoof, 1th of salt first fry the horses foot [crossed out] hoof in the tallow then take out the horse hoof then boil it all together and put it in a troft [sic] large enough to temper any tool then heat the tool a chery [sic] red and stick it in and leave it be