Dear Sacred Book, Oh Let Me Treasure Thee...Maranda Mowry's 1852 Pocket Bible with Handwritten Inscription tonka 1957 Great horse

Great horse

With a nice lushness about it (I especially love the  rich brown of those tree trunks)

Found separately but the same day as the little carved cat I just listed

Lots of tintype portraits out there

Dear Sacred Book, Oh Let Me Treasure Thee...Maranda Mowry's 1852 Pocket Bible with Handwritten Inscription tonka 1957 Great horseMuch of the beauty of searching for things in the physical world (in contrast to buying online) is coming across things I'd never look for though of course it's the danger too, as there are so many different sorts of empathetic objects! This was propped in a glass case, spine concealed, but a little handwriting visible, so of course I had to ask to see it, to discover it is a (hefty!) pocket Bible, published by Sanborn and Carter, Portland ME, 1852 a