Scarce Coe's New Drawing Cards No. 1, 1858, Partial Set of Nine in Lovely Original Sleeve indian bull I put them in this

I put them in this old slide lid box--a larger box than they need

Rolls along smoothly

with general smudging/soiling and unevenness to the top edge

though I find it a bit hard to tell exactly how it's surface came to be--and the sides and back are something else as well

and much of the tail is lost

Scarce Coe's New Drawing Cards No. 1, 1858, Partial Set of Nine in Lovely Original Sleeve indian bull I put them in thisI was sold on these just by the lovely paper sleeve encasing them, with a heart hand inked by the Ruth who once owned them to boot. They are a set of drawing cards, produced for use in schools, specifically "Coes New Drawing Lessons No 1." printed by D. Appleton & Co., New York, 1858, and described here as "A Method by which all the Members of a Large Class are taught to Draw at Once with Neatness, Uniformity, and Accuracy." (And indeed, it you've