Sweet Old Composition Notebook with Scattered Delights adornment this tole (painted tin) book

this tole (painted tin) book shaped box is still holding onto some of its original red paint on the covers and spine and yellow-orange on the “pages”

Not a large set

partially filled and in overall good condition

and the photograph itself is beautiful--sharp and crisp and just right

I keep snatching these antique cigar ribbon quilts  when I find them

Sweet Old Composition Notebook with Scattered Delights adornment this tole (painted tin) bookThis one is not full, but there are a number of pages in it I really love and would be inclined to extract and frame up starting with the first page, which appears to be a list of license plate numbers, each framed with a bubble, I imagine recorded during a road trip to pass the time. (To me it reads like a conceptual contemporary art drawing.; also interesting for having been done in the fairly early day of plates, NY being the first state to adopt