1879-1935 Painstaking Handwritten Ledger of Expenses, Chock Full gift for student I found a box of

I found a box of these old bone gambling chips and have become obsessed with them in the same way I'm obsessed with old clay marbles: I think they're just gorgeous as objects

though I assume it was created in the 70s or early 80s

praising the orchestra "for another splendid season"

easily screwing off to fill the shaker

which is wonderfully worn

1879-1935 Painstaking Handwritten Ledger of Expenses, Chock Full gift for student I found a box ofThe span of time covered in this full ledger makes it pretty amazing to begin with, documenting more than fifty years worth of expenses and telling us quite a lot about life being led. It seems to me that there are two different hands that wrote in itthe first running 1897 1893, which is less comprehensive and less interesting (though very pretty) than the bulk of it, which looks to have been kept by a Mrs, S. J. Martin, who documented everything!!!