ON HOLD 1810-1849 British Chemist/Medic's Notebook Full of Far Ranging Recipes porcelain pigment I love old wooden spinning

I love old wooden spinning tops just as a form

but easy to carry

found in Maine just as this Cardinal was

making the most satisfying sound

with a little paint loss as evident and a few minor edge chips

ON HOLD 1810-1849 British Chemist/Medic's Notebook Full of Far Ranging Recipes porcelain pigment I love old wooden spinningSo much fun finding and spending some time with this one, started in 1810 by a Giles Case and continued by Robert Case, his son one assumes, with a second date of 1849. These Cases appear to have lived on Buckham Farm, on the outskirts of Beaminster in Dorset, England, and seem to have been trained to some extent in chemistry and medicine, too but what makes this especially interesting reading is the far ranging variety of instructions and recipes