The Progressive Reader Volume Two, As Found, with Monarchs! xacto though possibly it is another

though possibly it is another metal that has been gilded

And roughly

by the form

I am certain it is Romanian

but it is the sides that really make this basket

The Progressive Reader Volume Two, As Found, with Monarchs! xacto though possibly it is anotherIve come more and more to delight in old books as physical objects and for the histories their readers have left behind in and on their pages, and opening this one to find these two monarchs felt like a message from the universe to reclaim it. Based on the paper towels they were carefully folded into Id say this reader served a few generations, with the butterflies probably held inside for 50 or 60 years. The reader itself shows a 1909 copyright and