1853 Diary with Many Years of Varied Entries bird with base how to put a price

how to put a price on what might just become one's favorite drawing ever

Initialed on reverse

there is a second repaired split at the neck

encrusted sting wrapped just below

and natural bristles

1853 Diary with Many Years of Varied Entries bird with base how to put a priceIt is impossible for me to walk away from things like this, with so much life, so many stories and so many years! embedded in them. This seems to have begun its life in 1853 as an E. P Chase' s day book, but there is writing in it in a few different hands, and much of it from the 1880s, when E. P. or someone else took to using it to record the deaths of family members and friends and of the "old horse!" most of these having no relationship to the day