Rachel B. Walton's 1826 Grammar Book with Inscribed Plate and Two Handmade Rewards of Merit vintage tabacco box This is a partial piquet

This is a partial piquet deck (piquet dates to the 16th century at latest

I’d guess maybe in the 1970s or so

what look perhaps to be picnic tables in the foreground

gives both a softness and a pop to anything in it

Rachel B. Walton's 1826 Grammar Book with Inscribed Plate and Two Handmade Rewards of Merit vintage tabacco box This is a partial piquetYou likely know I have a total weakness for early school books with the names of their one time owner beautifully inscribed inside, as is very much the case with this 1826 copy of Murray's English Grammar Simplified, published by Glazier & Co. in Hallowell, Maine, not very far from where I found it. The book itself is a rare one, but what a delight to find it not just Rachel B. Walton's name written inside, but also two rewards of merit from her