John Ranck’s Beautiful 1841 Math Notebook with Watercolor Headers, Pennsylvania horsehair plaster counter or shelf as is

counter or shelf as is

and especially the faces of the riders

which I take for a first sketch for the crayon drawing on reverse

and I think would make a pretty nice addition to a wall of dog portraits (or second place prizes

but a good one to hang in a kid's room now I'd say

John Ranck’s Beautiful 1841 Math Notebook with Watercolor Headers, Pennsylvania horsehair plaster counter or shelf as isIt has been a bit since I've bought an old math notebook ("copy book"), but this one was impossible to leave behind, with gorgeous hand marbled covers and watercolored headers on pretty much every single every page, plus a few extras about the John Ranck of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania who kept it while studying at "Pattons School House", 1841 1842. This one spans the basics addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, etc. with lots of