Set of Three Late 19th Century Educational and Industrial Drawing Notebooks Penobscot basket Ay marry will it said

Ay marry will it said a figure springing forward

which is still holding together very sturdily

It appears to be April 2

but usually let them go--but the old salmon colored paint on this one

such that the silhouette of what are surely meant to be feathers on a Native American figure also could be read as bunny ears

Set of Three Late 19th Century Educational and Industrial Drawing Notebooks Penobscot basket Ay marry will it saidThe covers on these are pretty rough detached in the case of two of them but I've got a weakness for these old drawing instruction books, especially the more minimal ones as these are (focused on simple shapes, designs and patterns) and there are a couple curious drawings in here all their own (faces, skeletons.) I have not done a comprehensive job photographing, but photos here give a good sense a few favorites pages first, then a sampling of a few