To Give a Fine Color to Mahogany and To Make a Strip Carpet, Earlier 19th C. Handwritten Instructions old celluloid dice and then two tiny red

and then two tiny red dots of thread at the nostrils

NY and fell in love with its formal execution and the Hopper-esque sense of urban solitude and longing it evokes

really a pretty thing

purchased from a seller in the Netherlands

To Give a Fine Color to Mahogany and To Make a Strip Carpet, Earlier 19th C. Handwritten Instructions old celluloid dice and then two tiny redSince finding a wonderful "Reipt" (receipt, widely used instead of recipe in the 19th century) "to tempur [sic] edge tools" some months ago, I have been keeping a close eye out for other examples of manuscript instructions of a related nature, which feel both so immediate, as if just being passed along from one person to another, and also so much of their time and place. And not just one but two here on the reverse instructions for making a "strip