Isaac Ilsley's 1820 Math Notebook with Lovely Headers, Portland Maine green leaf Hand-drawn sgraffito for the white

Hand-drawn sgraffito for the white lines with glossy gray-blue and black glaze and a coiled ring on the underside to nicely ground it

And I know from the seller that it was her great grandmother who made it

The hair is real badger hair

12" t x 6 1/8" w x 3 1/2" and in excellent antique condition

and old wooden boxes

Isaac Ilsley's 1820 Math Notebook with Lovely Headers, Portland Maine green leaf Hand-drawn sgraffito for the whiteIt's the pages headed with "Single Fellow"s and Double Fellowship" that really sold me on this one, a math notebook dating to 1820 kept by an Isaac Ilsley of Portland, Maine. And really I might be tempted to extract the former from the notebook to frame it to admire the mast head like "Single Fellows" so beautifully lettered, and also as it delivers a definition of fellowship that resonates far beyond its context: "Fellowship is when two or more join