Victorian Scrapbook Album with Unusual Room Setting Collages painted wood sign just as they were closing

just as they were closing

11 3/4" t x 4" w

just sitting there waiting for me

whether to decorate a birthday cake or just to take their place in a menagerie

Just a good small thing

Victorian Scrapbook Album with Unusual Room Setting Collages painted wood sign just as they were closingI usually pass on late Victorian scrapbook albums filled with trade cards, but I opened this one, offered by a dealer couple in my neck of the woods who always have great things, to find a charming series of collaged room settings, which to me wonderfully give life to the imagination of a young person, a young girl I would bet, envisioning the arrangement of her future home (or the home for her favorite doll! With each room named just below the