1838 Portsmouth, NY Alphabetical Ledger with Hand-marbled Cover schmid I found it at an

I found it at an estate sale of a man who served in Japan during WWII and brought a lot back with him

though perhaps they were gaming chips of sorts for use at the race track

some of which I'm listing today separately

I think he's a pretty great looking little monkey

1838 Portsmouth, NY Alphabetical Ledger with Hand-marbled Cover schmid I found it at anRare in my experience to come across an alphabetically tabbed ledger like this, and such a beautiful one, filled with the names of old Portsmouth, NH families someone from these parts would surely recognize. The letters of the alphabetical index are printed individually cut from somewhere and adhered one by one to the edges of the pages, with the pages to follow trimmed in order that each letter be visible from the front. To me all those letters lined