Red Cross First Aid Text-Book with Brown Paper Hand-drawn Cover Holman inuit print on a mantle

on a mantle

I'm completely charmed by this little creamer

just a little cracking to the glaze circling the handle at the center of the lid

It still opens and closes with ease and one could store little things inside

but the glass is quite thick and I'd guess would not shatter very easily

Red Cross First Aid Text-Book with Brown Paper Hand-drawn Cover Holman inuit print on a mantleThese old American Red Cross First Aid books are pretty great and pretty handy! to begin with, but all the better with a terrific brown paper dust jacket with big red cross drawn in crayon on the front! This is a 1940 copy (the second photo shows another uncovered copy listed separately) and features some pretty great photographs and diagrams, my favorite being how to tie all sorts of bandages, slings and tourniquets, including how best to make use of