Calender, 1856, Dramatically Inked Fraktur Bookplate bone egg with the interior intended for

with the interior intended for (longer

just one very light surface scratch

and ancient

I might just pin it to the wall

and distant shore

Calender, 1856, Dramatically Inked Fraktur Bookplate bone egg with the interior intended forI'm very tempted to get this one in a simple frame and keep it for myself forever possessing a drama and gravitas that far exceeds it scale, and feeling as if it holds all of the weight of time and its passage in those very heavily black inked letters, which have burned through the paper here and there. The bookplate of a Christina Kern, 1856, found in Pennsylvania.(Love that lonely comma after the 1856, too.) And note the spelling of Calender with an