1853 Diary with Many Years of Varied Entries boxwood and brass " which she has written

" which she has written again on the back of the frame at a later date

and then this terrific budding tree at center with nest perched in the crook of one branch

in addition to their collective poise and intense straight ahead stares

Sight: 11 1/2" x 8 5/8"

Cubes measure 1 1/16" cubed

1853 Diary with Many Years of Varied Entries boxwood and brass " which she has writtenIt is impossible for me to walk away from things like this, with so much life, so many stories and so many years! embedded in them. This seems to have begun its life in 1853 as an E. P Chase' s day book, but there is writing in it in a few different hands, and much of it from the 1880s, when E. P. or someone else took to using it to record the deaths of family members and friends and of the "old horse!" most of these having no relationship to the day