1853 Diary with Many Years of Varied Entries boxwood and brass Cubes measure 1 1/16" cubed

Cubes measure 1 1/16" cubed

in addition to their collective poise and intense straight ahead stares

A&P measures 8 3/4" w x 5 3/8" t x 3" d

while pointy hands mean love of beauty (though excessive imagination

1853 Diary with Many Years of Varied Entries boxwood and brass Cubes measure 1 1/16" cubedIt is impossible for me to walk away from things like this, with so much life, so many stories and so many years! embedded in them. This seems to have begun its life in 1853 as an E. P Chase' s day book, but there is writing in it in a few different hands, and much of it from the 1880s, when E. P. or someone else took to using it to record the deaths of family members and friends and of the "old horse!" most of these having no relationship to the day