J.H Brown's c. 1830s Mother Goose's Melodies, Brown Paper Cover and Pencil Drawn Additions cherokee ) or just as a

) or just as a beautiful object for display

3 3/4" l x 1 1/2" widest

and would certainly make a nice toy for a child still

There is a slit at top for a plate of glass to slide through (no glass is included but easy to have one cut)

this is a nice old set of 49 color cubes housed in a great old O'Brien Brothers tobacco/cigar box

J.H Brown's c. 1830s Mother Goose's Melodies, Brown Paper Cover and Pencil Drawn Additions cherokee ) or just as aYou know I've got a weakness for early children's books, with this rare copy of Mother Goose's Melodies filled with charming engravings dating to the 1830s or so, but of course my even greater weakness if for how such books were personalized by the children who owned them and this one has the hand of a young J. H Brown all over it! Mostly, he added tiny hats to people and animals, but toward the end he seems to have learned how to write, and so Miss