Leaf Studies, Rebecca Pillsbury's 1847 Notebook of Ink-stamped and Labeled Specimens, Nashville, NH antique objects The box shows plenty of

The box shows plenty of wear

I do believe he's got a bunch of years on him

and I know pulled out of an old boat builder's shop in Ellsworth

plus the proportions of the tin

as if a portrait of a woman stuck

Leaf Studies, Rebecca Pillsbury's 1847 Notebook of Ink-stamped and Labeled Specimens, Nashville, NH antique objects The box shows plenty ofI was really excited to find this, purchased from a seller in New Hampshire, not far from where it was created close to two centuries ago, in the no longer extant town of Nashville, NH. The work of a Rebecca Pillsbury, inscribed on the front inside cover along with the date, it features fourteen neatly composed pages of ink stamped leaves (sometime looking a lot like graphite rubbings, but I am pretty certain all pressed in ink), with each of the leaf