Wired on the back for hanging straight away
representing various Dino species
ranging from near black to rust orange
Seems quite possibly a rank badge
from the period during which they were teaching at the University of New Hampshire
Scarce 1853 Merril's New Illuminated Alphabet Book old handmade wooden frame Wired on the back forI sure do love alphabets, and happily they've manifested in so many excellent incarnations with unlikely survivors my favorite kind! This is an 1853 copy of Merrill's New Illuminated Alphabet Book, published by Rufus Merrill, Concord, NH, and which I think may have been the first edition, as I can find no earlier reference to it, though I have found later. Paper cover, with beautiful upper and lower case alphabets on the flip, and then each page