British 1823 School Botany Notebook with Drawings Throughout F.O.M and held in by the

and held in by the very thinnest of walls

I'd guess this hand-thrown pottery vase dates to the 1970s

3/4" thick

There would have once been a small cork to plug the opening of the bottle itself

British 1823 School Botany Notebook with Drawings Throughout F.O.M and held in by theI recently purchased a bundle of antique school notebooks from a bookseller in England, whose late husband had collected them, and I must say that it felt rather like Christmas receiving and going through them for the first time! This Botany notebook from 1823 is the humblest looking from the outside with just a simple brown paper cover, but inside a complete delight and I think my favorite of the lot, with lovely handwritten text interspersed