Frances Billings' Very Sweet Seventh Grade Herbarium, c. 1910s-20s Seattle carver Taller measures 9" tall

Taller measures 9" tall

copper engraving on wove

Carved folk art pipes like this make me long for the days when pipe smoking was common

10 7/8” w x 6 3/16” d x 2 3/8” t

the cryptic note

Frances Billings' Very Sweet Seventh Grade Herbarium, c. 1910s-20s Seattle carver Taller measures 9" tallA very sweet group of 24 "nature studies," housed in a cloth covered three ring binder though those binder rings pull at the holes in the somewhat brittle paper, making them not so easy to flip through so I'd keep them loose inside, or get some of these into frames. Sometimes one loves love herbarium for their exquisiteness, and sometimes for the humble earnestness this is more the latter, but really very lovely too. I love the paper they were done