Of a Different Ilk, Exceptional Hand-colored, Artfully Composed Victorian Pictorial Scrapbook handmade foot stool I love the not-quite triangular

I love the not-quite triangular shape

and a second PA German catechism book listed next

one surface abrasion to the green along bottom edge toward the right

with just the right amount of irregularity

Of a Different Ilk, Exceptional Hand-colored, Artfully Composed Victorian Pictorial Scrapbook handmade foot stool I love the not-quite triangularThis "pictorial scrapbook" is a revelation to me. I have never paid much attention at all to Victorian scrapbooks, typically filled with die cuts and trade cards and illustrations of fashionable ladies cut from journals most seeming very much of the 'seen one, seen them all' variety to me. But amidst those, I am now becoming more aware, there were some extraordinary albums being created very inventive photo collages, for example, and "scrapbook