Massive Skowhegan, Maine Druggist's Prescriptions Ledger, 1890s, Fuller than Full antique kindergarten exercise rather as if he's pouting

rather as if he's pouting

His body is made of what seems to be a sort of molded cardboard

Crazing to the glaze all over as well dark spots here and there

it lays flat and straight and could also be carefully ironed  (with a thin towel over top to be safe

Happily this one still holds the horse race game

Massive Skowhegan, Maine Druggist's Prescriptions Ledger, 1890s, Fuller than Full antique kindergarten exercise rather as if he's poutingThe hand marbled cover, together with great bulk, of this antique ledger sold me on it before I even opened it. Then I did, to find hundreds of pages completely covered truly no spare inch with pasted in apothecary prescriptions, spanning the period 1892 1897 from what I have discerned. The majority of them, and the paper label adhered to the cover, are from George Cushing's Drug Store in Skowhegan Maine, not very far from where I found it, but there