1910s Pocket Notebook with Portrait and Curious Mix! english pigeon decoy it shows a strong Arts

it shows a strong Arts and Crafts sensibility (looking at that row of trees along the horizon line

the leather bottle has really nice age and wear to it

and slip skirt in addition to her bloomers

especially prominent antlers

1910s Pocket Notebook with Portrait and Curious Mix! english pigeon decoy it shows a strong ArtsA curious little pocket notebook, which I love for its combination of contents the cutout photo portrait, with fraternity affiliation just below, and then pasted in lists of measures, recipes for making animal feed, fire alarm codes, and then, very carefully written on gridded paper, what I've figured out is a list of winning race horses. Methinks this young man was, most passionately, a betting man, even while studying agriculture at Hamilton