Diminutive Old Hand-Carved Green-Gray Stone Miniature Folk Art Book handwritten lettering the raven is a sacred

the raven is a sacred figure in Northwest Coast native cultures

strongly graphic old theorem watercolor paintings of fruit today

so increasingly it is unusual ones that draw me

Vesta Kent of (I can't quite decipher the town) Maine

Diminutive Old Hand-Carved Green-Gray Stone Miniature Folk Art Book handwritten lettering the raven is a sacredThere are certainly much larger and fancier old marble stone carved books out there, but I like the small scale and humbleness of this one, which would be perfect as the topper of a graduated stack. Carved of a variegated stone, soapstone I believe, with incised details around the perimeters of the front and back "covers" and across the spine, with crosses at the corners and recessed "pages". Found in Lancaster County PA, late 19th early 20th century