Hail Stones from Great Storm of 1870, Scarce Knowlton Brothers Stereoview tabletop figurine Price is per piece

Price is per piece

My interest in salesman samples on occasion is somewhat less for their own sake as samples (though of course I love all things miniature

This one does not bear a patent mark that I can see and I think may not be quite that old

understandably

Hail Stones from Great Storm of 1870, Scarce Knowlton Brothers Stereoview tabletop figurine Price is per pieceOne of two stereoviews today, both among my very favorites I've had. At first glance I took these for a cluster of button mushrooms, but a closer look, and the printed list on the reverse of the card, reveals these as a collection of hail stones from "the Great Storm of 1870." The compounding of the strange phenomenon that is hail with the fact of these particular hail stones having been captured as documents of a specific "Great Storm" before melting