April 12, 2024
scrapbook antique book 30th Congress 1848 Commissioner of Patents patent unique
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This is one of the stranger books I have ever come across. This is pretty rough, side binding pretty much all gone by the looks of it, both covers really loose pretty much off, specks, spots and wear. Pages discolored, bit musty, general wear, specks and spots on covers. The title page says Thirtieth Congress - First Session, Ex. Doc. No. 54 House of Representatives Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents For the Year 1847, Printed 1848. If you are looking for a decent copy of that book, you better keep looking because this probably isn't it. The previous owner basically turned this antique book into a scrapbook of newspaper clippings, poems mostly about all sorts of things, a particular holiday or a wide variety of other things. I don't really see a date, but I think it is safe to assume that these newspaper clippings came from late 19th or early 20th century. I kind of like poetry so I just about kept this. How much time and effort was spent cutting and pasting a poem or story than meant something to this person - great stuff. My third picture over is most typical of this book and you open it up and see a bunch of clippings pasted into a book. It does seem that every once in awhile they would cut out pages of the original book probably to make this work better as a scrapbook, not much for pictures although there are some illustrations
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