To Give a Fine Color to Mahogany and To Make a Strip Carpet, Earlier 19th C. Handwritten Instructions duncan's yoyo One fine crease/crack in the

One fine crease/crack in the paper showing as a fine line running horizontally just below his hand

i take the portrait in profile carved into the top as a portrait of the sweetheart in question

11 3/8" x 9 7/8" framed

I am no great expert

paperclips--whatever

To Give a Fine Color to Mahogany and To Make a Strip Carpet, Earlier 19th C. Handwritten Instructions duncan's yoyo One fine crease/crack in theSince finding a wonderful "Reipt" (receipt, widely used instead of recipe in the 19th century) "to tempur [sic] edge tools" some months ago, I have been keeping a close eye out for other examples of manuscript instructions of a related nature, which feel both so immediate, as if just being passed along from one person to another, and also so much of their time and place. And not just one but two here on the reverse instructions for making a "strip