Massive Skowhegan, Maine Druggist's Prescriptions Ledger, 1890s, Fuller than Full grenfell mission carved doll were used to store ingredients

were used to store ingredients needed for betel chewing-- once a common practice in southeast Asia

including:

with thick handmade paper cover

) Based on the penciled note at top and list of individuals at bottom

or as catchalls for all sorts of odds and ends

Massive Skowhegan, Maine Druggist's Prescriptions Ledger, 1890s, Fuller than Full grenfell mission carved doll were used to store ingredientsThe hand marbled cover, together with great bulk, of this antique ledger sold me on it before I even opened it. Then I did, to find hundreds of pages completely covered truly no spare inch with pasted in apothecary prescriptions, spanning the period 1892 1897 from what I have discerned. The majority of them, and the paper label adhered to the cover, are from George Cushing's Drug Store in Skowhegan Maine, not very far from where I found it, but there