Among my very favorite recent finds, this perpetual calendar dates to no later than 1870 or so, as there a number of dated handwritten notes on fronts and backs of the monthly inserts, recording exceptional weather events in the early 1870s (snow on Oct 18-19, 1871, big snow storm March 31, 1872, etc.) Especially beautiful to me is that another set of notes were added in the 1940s-- "Brian's birthday" on Feb 15, the return of Ian Buchanan from WW2 on June 27, 1946, and the very evocative "left in the morning September 14, 1948." To me this layering of annotations across time, across generations, makes the calendar feel very poignant--central to the lives of those who owned it, and an embodiment of a sort of continuity, or persistence, across centuries, time rolling on. Plus a wonderful handwritten SUNDAY on the back of the Saturday insert--that being the only card out of the whole set lost at some point. A singular and special thing, and a rare survivor, which one feels quite responsible for shepherding on far into the future.
8 7/8" t x 5 1/2" w x 1 1/8" d. Very good condition, and pretty amazing to find still complete. Notations on some of the cards as noted and evident, very much additive.
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