Joanna's and Mary's Much Battered and Embellished New Merrill Speller tramp art match box Paper really is bright white

Paper really is bright white and very clean

allowing for very dramatic poses and gestures

Signed with what I think is PM on the bottom

but I also love a more unusual hand-carved box with a tramp-y flavor

Joanna's and Mary's Much Battered and Embellished New Merrill Speller tramp art match box Paper really is bright whiteI don't think I'll get over my great love of much personalized old school books any time soon, and will keep buying them when I find them, whether anyone else wants them or so! This battered c. 1920s speller, which includes both the names Mary Kerrvck and Johanna Babbit inside, is missing a couple of pages as front, has a spine reinforced with black cloth tape, and is annotated with pencil throughout. What I love most are the drawings on the inside