Calender, 1856, Dramatically Inked Fraktur Bookplate sculptural blocks This may be my favorite

This may be my favorite ex voto retablo I've had in the shop

Later 19th c

and keeps the box from closing completely flush

Well used but still very sharp looking

and the joints at the corners of one side will come apart when all the dominoes are packed tightly into the box (alleviated if not worried about the lid sitting flush)

Calender, 1856, Dramatically Inked Fraktur Bookplate sculptural blocks This may be my favoriteI'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