Frances Billings' Very Sweet Seventh Grade Herbarium, c. 1910s-20s american penmanship listing the Park Avenue address

listing the Park Avenue address of the company's New York sales room on one side and the company info on the other

with very satisfying proportions

) Handmade in Indonesia

Coiled snake approx 3" d

but it seems to me just right at this scale--like a whisper of a message from on far

Frances Billings' Very Sweet Seventh Grade Herbarium, c. 1910s-20s american penmanship listing the Park Avenue addressA very sweet group of 24 "nature studies," housed in a cloth covered three ring binder though those binder rings pull at the holes in the somewhat brittle paper, making them not so easy to flip through so I'd keep them loose inside, or get some of these into frames. Sometimes one loves love herbarium for their exquisiteness, and sometimes for the humble earnestness this is more the latter, but really very lovely too. I love the paper they were done