Embossed Brass Butterfly Pen Wipe vintage illustration on board but it also appears to

but it also appears to have lived in this 19th c

The portraits themselves are pretty terrific

I'm certain that this wonderful gilded cast bronze rabbit (I believe a rabbit

the Schoenhut Piano Company

Embossed Brass Butterfly Pen Wipe vintage illustration on board but it also appears toThere is a certain blurry line between old pen wipes and needle books, but I'm sure this is the former, especially due to the smooth black fabric inside, of which there are only two "pages" with the black of course matching the color of the ink this would for the most part be wiping! It's the embossed brass butterfly on the face that sold me, all done by hand like a pin prick drawing, and then riveted the suede cover along the top of the back.