Sometimes you open a book and find things inside, like an old calling card, or a calculation written on a scrap of envelope. Or a pressed flower from two hundred years ago. I’ve saved these things and have started to scan them.
Title: Ephemera and Things Found In Old Books
Date: 1806
Total items: 7
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
A scrap of a letter or envelope that I found tucked inside my copy of Harwood’s 1801 “Grecian Antiquities”—there is a calculation, 14.56 × 225, giving £3,2557; there is also a stamp that I have taken for a postmark, reading “JY A? 11 ?806” which I have taken to be a date of July 11th 1806, with a missing letter giving a two-letter abberviatoin for [...] [more...] [$]
I found a flower between two pages of my copy of Harwood’s 1801 “Grecian Antiquities”. [$]
Haynes School Charter from 1850
Somehow i ended up with this manuscript, which authorized the founding of a Church school for the poor in Haynes, Bedfordshire, UK, in 1850. Probably this was the school that’s in the South-West corner of Haynes Church End, almost at Clophill Lane, converted to a private house in the 1960s by an arcitect who lived there (Chris Robinson). My father [...] [more...] [$]
Harwood 6: pressed flower from the other side
I found a flower between two pages of my copy of Harwood’s 1801 “Grecian Antiquities”. [$]
Sometimes you open a book and find things inside, like an old calling card, or a calculation written on a scrap of envelope. Or a pressed flower from two hundred years ago. I’ve saved these things and have started to scan them.
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