Without a Friend The World is a Wilderness, Late 19th C. Penmanship Practice Notebook antique staffordshire and the ring Macassar ebony

and the ring Macassar ebony (from Makassar

There is a little loss to one far edge of the slide top box

There is one area where the cloth has come a bit apart from the box around the top edge of one side

it appears there was once a second snake

and to the body of the jar as well as some glaze chips

Without a Friend The World is a Wilderness, Late 19th C. Penmanship Practice Notebook antique staffordshire and the ring Macassar ebonyAnother old penmanship practice notebook, as I can never resist these either. Not a ton of pages to this one, and I think one could be forgiven for carefully extracting a page or two to frame I would be disposed to choose the page full of "Without a friend the world is a wilderness," though "Distance is the best remedy against evil disposed men" is pretty great too, and good advice I'd say, and I love how the "men" at the end of the line angle up and