Keep Hands OFF, G.R's First German Book for School and Home, 1870s sapolin gold leaf How not to love

How not to love

found in Lancaster County

I think these are pretty old and they've got a few layers of paint on them -- the back of the chair shows an old faded dark red

making me wonder if he isn't meant to represent a butler

most which wind with a key and hop

Keep Hands OFF, G.R's First German Book for School and Home, 1870s sapolin gold leaf How not to loveOf course it is the "Keep hands OFF this Book" written by a GR in blue crayon on the inside front cover of this old German language school book that sold me on it, but then it was a delight to discover a few small drawings and crayon coloring on some of the geometric shapes scattered across its pages. And the printed matter itself is quite lovely, combining bits of arithmetic and geometry and penmanship and German language on each page. Some pages at