Samuel Gifford (Age 9) 1802 British Math Notebook handmade wooden clown ” ) Lucky guests to

” ) Lucky guests to the ball received a souvenir

with the arcs of their necks almost forming a heart and the negative space between the feet and the base rather like a keyhole

And really

with a wonderful presence

Samuel Gifford (Age 9) 1802 British Math Notebook handmade wooden clown ” ) Lucky guests to****Newly available as the buyer who claimed this disappeared! ***** I have long been eyeing antique school notebooks, both relating to the study of math and writing penmanship, and finally found a lovely set of five of them from a seller in England, which I am listing individually. This is the oldest among them, a math notebook of a Samuel Gifford Junior of Blackford Somerset, dating to 1802, with a note on the first inside page that he died a year