Upright Planes / Dialling: Early 1800s Notebook Page with Watercolor Diagrams in Double Sided Frame tally machine which could function as a

which could function as a large pin cushion

and rather transcends its folk nature to feel like a tiny modernist sculpture

then the face--seeming to me exactly the face that a coffee cup should have--was incised and and clay eyes added

though someone would need to be pretty special to deserve one of these

Upright Planes / Dialling: Early 1800s Notebook Page with Watercolor Diagrams in Double Sided Frame tally machine which could function as aThis is one of three double sided pages from an early 19th c. Newburyport, MA school notebook I'm listing clearly the work of one person which came from the collection of longtime New England collectors Bev and John Titus. I love early watercolored lettering and diagrams just about as much as anything in the world (and have also been kind of obsessed with sun dials lately) so swooned when I saw these. Both I believe relate to the scientific basis of